prayagraj two men were allegedly found murdered outside the liquor shops where they worked in on kokhrajbharwari road under the limits of kokhraj police station on friday morningthe deceased were identified as rajendra kumar 55 and shiv pratap 44 and they were residents of nihalpur and habbu nagar respectively the two worked in separate shops which were located halfakilometre away from the kokhraj police stationig prayagraj range kp singh said that the two shops were located adjacent to each other while slain rajendra kumar used to work in a shop selling indian made foreign liquor imfl for the past twoandahalf years shiv pratap has been working in a store selling countrymade liquor since the past one yearon thursday night the two had their dinner after closing the shops and went to sleep on separate cots in the verandah in front of their shopstheir bodies were found on their cots in the morning according to police rajendra was allegedly suffocated while shiv prasad was killed with a sharp weaponpolice said that the cash and liquor bottles kept inside the shops were not missing indicating that the accused only wanted to murder the twopolice have been scanning call detail records of the two and have sent the bodies for postmortem examinationmeanwhile a 38yearold man was killed at his inlaws home in umri katra village under ghurpur police station late thursday nightaccording to police the deceased was identified as abdul razak and was a resident of sikandra in baharia he was visiting his inlaws and was allegedly attacked with a weapon while he was trying to pacify two rival groups the two groups were fighting after someone reportedly threw a brick at one of their memberspolice said razak worked in a company in middle east and had returned to his native village in baharia during the lockdown around a month backpolice said the youth had arrived at his inlaws house on thursday morningpolice said that razak first fell on the ground and his head hit with a stone before he could stand up he was also attacked by the two groups two persons have also been detained for interrogation