Primary Health Properties makes $1.96 billion cash-and-share bid for Assura

-Assura said on Thursday that Primary Health Properties has made an indicative cash-and-share acquisition proposal, valuing the British healthcare real estate investment trust at 1.5 billion pounds ($1.96 billion).

($1 = 0.7639 pounds)

(Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru; Editing by Janane Venkatraman)