Mohali, Aug. 10 -- A 48-year-old government school headmaster died on Sunday, three days after unidentified assailants attacked him with an axe and a kirpan outside his house in Sunny Enclave, Kharar. Section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been added to the FIR, police officials said.

The deceased, Gursewak Singh, was posted as headmaster at the government school in Kumbhra and was also serving as the smart school in-charge in Mohali district. He had sustained severe injuries and had been undergoing treatment at a hospital where he succumbed on Sunday morning.

According to officials, Gursewak was standing outside his house when the assailants arrived in a white car and attacked him with an axe and kirpan before fleeing....