India, Nov. 11 -- Six people have been arrested in the case of killing of two minor boys near Samayapuram in Tiruchirappalli district on Deepavali night, and one of the accused was shot in the leg during a weapons recovery exercise in the early hours of Wednesday (November 11), police said.

The deceased were identified as Veera Rahul and R Vishal who were aged 17. The police said the two had gone to Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College Hospital near the Samayapuram toll plaza on November 8 with their six friends to visit Vignesh, who was being treated for burns from a recent firecracker accident.

According to police, the group then walked about 80 metres from the hospital to talk and then a sudden dispute broke out between the deceas...