Elderly priest hacked to death

Unidentified miscreants struck terror when they brutally hacked a 65-year-old priest of prominent Ramjanki Temple in Gorakhpur and had also looted the idols worth over one crore rupees. The incident took place sometime on intervening night of Thursday and Friday morning. A case was registered in this regard and all out efforts were made to trace out the killers and to recover the stolen idols.

Reports said that some local residents at Bakuta locality of Shahjanwa in Gorakhpur were shocked when they reached Ramjanki Temple for darshan on early Friday morning. The found the body of priest lying on the floor while idols of the Ramjanki were looted by some unknown person. 

They immediately informed the local police who rushed to the spot. The cops after investigation claimed that probably someone came to rob the costly idols but as the priest wake-up and challenged them so they killed him before fleeing with the booty.

Meanwhile three girls also drowned in Bareilly on Friday. According to reports, some girls hailing from Tisuwa hamlet of Fatehganj Purvi, in Bareilly went to take bath in a local canal on Friday morning. However, due to heavy rains on late Thursday night, the flow of the canal is too fast so the girls caught unaware and slipped inside and were drowned. 

Some local residents who rushed to their rescue later fished out three of the bodies of the victims identified as Shaista aka Bali (17), a resident of Alambagh in lucknow, Hina (17) and Mantaza, both residents of Patelnagar in Ranjeetnagar locality of New Delhi. All the three victims had visited the above place to attend a marriage ceremony of the kin of their maternal uncle Mohamed Nisar. A case was registered and the bodies were send for autopsy test.