Lightning strike kills couple
Basti, May 1: A farmer couple died on Thursday after being struck by lightning at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district, officials said. Ramcharan (55) and his wife Chandravati (52) were working in their field when lightning struck them following a sudden thunderstorm, they said. Eyewitnesses reported seeing smoke rising from the location where the lightning hit the couple. (PTI)
Newborn girl’s body found
Thane, May 1: The body of a newborn girl was found at Kalwa in Maharashtra’s Thane city, police said on Thursday. A passerby noticed the body lying near a public toilet located close to a company on Wednesday, an official of Kalwa police station said. After being informed, a police team collected the body and sent it to a government hospital for post-mortem. (PTI)
Woman found murdered
Thane, May 1: The body of a 35-year-old woman with a head injury was found in her home in Maharashtra’s Thane district, a police official said on Thursday. Victim Anita Deepak Goyal lived at Jiwdani Nagara in the Diva area, he said. She was killed around midnight on April 29, said the official from Mumbra police station. It appears a stone was smashed on her forehead, he said. It was immediately not clear if she was alone in the house at the time of the crime. (PTI)
Man stabbed to death in Delhi
New Delhi, May 1: A 26-year-old man was stabbed to death in the Sultanpuri area of outer Delhi over an alleged personal enmity, police said on Thursday. Police received a call from the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital on Wednesday night, stating that Suraj, a resident of Sultanpuri, was declared dead on arrival after he was brought to the facility with stab wounds. Preliminary investigation revealed that Suraj had a long-standing enmity with the assailants, police said. He was stabbed when he was going to attend a wedding function with a friend on Wednesday night, they said. (PTI)
Motorbike falls into well, two dead
Sehore, May 1: Two persons were killed after their motorcycle fell into a well in Sehore district in the wee hours of Thursday, police said. The incident took place at Phoolmogra village, said district superintendent of police Deepak Shukla. The bike crashed into the protective wall around the well and fell inside, he said. (PTI)