Mumbai, Oct 21 (PTI) A 25-year-old was allegedly brutally killed by two unidentified men in Deonar area of suburban Mumbai, police said on Wednesday.

Zahid Zulfikar Sheikh, a resident of Shivaji Nagar, was sleeping below an under-construction bridge when two men attacked him with a paver block late on Tuesday night, an official said.

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A case of murder has been registered based on a complaint lodged by the deceased's brother, who is employed as a driver of Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi, he added. PTI

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