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In a brutal double-murder on the eve of Women's Day, a woman and her daughter were hacked to death while a kin was injured when a lovesick youth barged into their house and attacked them with a sharp-edged weapon late Sunday night.
The incident took place in Jarar locality of Bah in Agra. Five police teams have been formed to nab the killer.
Reports said that Sharada Devi (50) was sleeping in her room with her daughter Kamini (19) when the accused, Govind, entered the house and stabbed her and her daughter late Sunday night.
On hearing their screams, Vimlesh, the elder daughter-in-law of Sharda Devi, rushed to their room but she too was attacked with the knife by the accused.
The locals also rushed to the house on hearing the commotion but by then the assailant managed to flee.
All the victims were rushed to hospital where Sharada Devi and Kamini were pronounced dead while the condition of Vimlesh was stated to be critical.
Senior police officials, including IG Satish Ganesh and SSP Bablu Kumar, reached the scene of crime and a forensic team was called in to collect evidence. A dog squad was called to trace the accused.
Ganesh told reporters that the accused was in love with the daughter of Sharada Devi but she did not respond to his love. To get rid of him, Sharda Devi had fixed her daughter's marriage with another youth and two weeks back her engagement ceremony took place. This had provoked the accused to kill both.
The police official said that the accused would be arrested soon.
The bodies were sent for post-mortem.
In Sant Kabir Nagar, the body of an unknown woman was found inside a gunny bag lying in Kuwano river in Saakhi hamlet of Dhanghata on Monday morning.
Some local residents who spotted the body informed the local police about it. The cops later sent the body for post-mortem.
The police said the girl was probably killed and her body was stuffed in the bag and thrown in the river. She was wearing a pink T-shirt and a mud colour salwar.
Efforts are on to find out the identify the victim so that the killers could be traced and arrested.
Meanwhile, in a shocking incident, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 16-year-old boy when she was returning home from school in Fatehpur district.
Inspector in-charge (SSI) of the Hathgam police station Ashish Singh said the incident occurred on Wednesday and an FIR was lodged on Friday.
He said the victim, a class 9 student, was returning home from school when a class 10 student of the same school, who is also her neighbour, allegedly caught hold of her and forcibly took her to a nearby forest area and raped her.
The SSI said the accused minor student was held and would be produced before a juvenile court. The girl was sent to a government hospital for medical examination.