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BANGALORE, Oct 18: Indian police have shot dead the country's most wanted bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan in a shootout in southern India, officials said on Tuesday.
"Three of his aides have also been killed," an official said, adding the shootout occurred on Monday.
Veerappan, believed to have ties with Tamil militants and accused of more than 100 cases of murder, hit world headlines in 2000 when he held film star Rajkumar hostage for 108 days.
Veerappan was once seen by local people as a modern day Robin Hood and eluded police for more than a decade.-Reuters
