http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76947<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Unconfirmed reports claimed that the three-term assemblyperson was shot after two men approached him near a lift in the party headquarters, where Krishnasamy was supposed to attend a meeting.<\/p>\n Krishnasamy, a contractor, leaves behind\u00a0widow Sornavalli and four children.<\/p>\n He was also elected as a\u00a0member of\u00a0MIC’s powerful central working committee in 2000, 2003 and 2006.<\/p>\n Krishnasamy is the second MIC politician to have been shot dead in recent years. In 2000, then Kedah state assemblyperson for Lunas Dr Joe Fernandez was shot dead in Bukit Mertajam by unidentified men.<\/p>\n Contacted later,\u00a0Kahang (Johor)\u00a0state assemblyperson S Ramis described Krishnasamy’s death as a great loss to the party.<\/p>\n “He was a bold and daring man who worked hard for his constituents and the Indian community. This is a big loss. He was one of the potential leaders to lead the state MIC,” he said.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Got a call on this a few minutes ago. Confirmed by article on MK MIC leader shot dead in Johor http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76947 Jan 11, 08 3:32pm MIC Johor deputy chief and Tenggaroh state assemblyperson S Krishnasamy was gunned down by unidentified assailants at the MIC Johor headquarters this afternoon. When contacted, his staff confirmed that Krishnasamy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,58,24],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-krishnasamy","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n Jan 11, 08 3:32pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n MIC Johor deputy chief and Tenggaroh state assemblyperson S Krishnasamy was gunned down by unidentified assailants at the MIC Johor headquarters this afternoon.<\/p>\n ![](\"http:\/\/media1.malaysiakini.com:8080\/107\/bc3480397db723e44ee66af5dbf748e0.gif\")
When contacted, his staff confirmed that Krishnasamy, 58, died shortly after the\u00a02pm incident. The politician was shot twice at close range.<\/p>\n