Two minors brutally murdered in Tiruchy

TIRUCHY: Two minors were brutally murdered near Samayapuram in Tiruchy on Sunday late hours.

Sources said, Rahul (17), a resident from Inam Samayapuram was staying in one of his relative’s house in the locality after his parents passed away and was doing odd jobs for livelihood.

On Sunday around 11.30 pm, Rahul along with his cousin R Vishal (17) was walking along the Pullambadi canal near Samayapuram tollgate, they were confronted by an unidentified gang and they were brutally attacked with lethal weapons in which Vishal died on the spot with severe cut injuries on head and face while Rahul was struggling for life with slit throat and the gang fled from the spot in the vicinity of darkness.

The passersby who came to the spot, passed on the information to the Samayapuram police who rushed to the spot and retrieved the body of Vishal and rushed the injured Rahul to hospital.

However Rahul too succumbed to the injuries on the way to the hospital. Subsequently bodies were sent to Tiruchy GH. A case has been registered and investigations are on.

Meanwhile the SP Dongare Pravin Umesh who visited the spot conducted an inquiry and ordered to form three special teams to nab the culprits.