A 39-year-old woman was hacked to death and her husband and son injured in Thoothukudi district on Thursday night, allegedly after they opposed a man’s advances towards their teenage daughter.
Madurai: A youth hacked to death a 39-year-old woman, attacked her husband and son, before abducting her two teenage daughters near Sathankulam on Thursday night. Tuticorin superintendent of police R Shiva Prasad said the 23-year-old accused attacked the family after the couple asked their 15-year-old daughter with whom he was in a relationship to stop talking to him. Police identified the deceased as Mary Vijila, wife of Muthukrishnan, 43, of Mudalur. Gnana Prakash, 23, of Anandapuram was working as a parotta master, and had allegedly been in a relationship with Muthukrishnan’s 15-year-old daughter, a school dropout, according to police. On Thursday night, he arrived on a two-wheeler and attacked Muthukrishnan and Mary Vijila, as also their 12-year-old son using a sickle.
Police rescued the girls within an hour and subsequently arrested the accused.
A case was registered by Thattarmadam police, and intensive search launched.
Both the girls were rescued safely in an hour from the house of the accused, who was nabbed in another three hours, police said. On receiving information, police rushed to the spot, shifted the injured to hospital and sent Mary Vijila’s body to Tirunelveli Govt Medical College Hospital for postmortem.