Lone wolf, hiding spot, security: How Rajiv assassination bid was similar to Trump’s, with a crucial difference

The attempt to assassinate Donald Trump, particularly the manner in which his would-be assassin Thomas Mathew Crooks hid himself in plain sight, is similar to an assassination attempt on Rajiv Gandhi, just two years after he became the Prime Minister in 1984, and five years before he was killed by a suicide bomber of the LTTE during the 1991 election campaign in Sriperambadur, outside Chennai.