A day-long curfew was on Friday clamped on this district headquarter town in Bhojpur district as tension escalated following the gunning down of Brahmeshwar Singh, chief of now-defunct private militia

Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Bihar's Bhojpur district early on Friday morning, police said.

Singh was on a morning walk when he was accosted by gunmen