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The accused was questioned after being picked up on the basis of an FIR lodged against him by his mother-in-law in Kodala police station area on Thursday.  The accused planned to start business by selling his wife's ornaments, said police. (Representational) Berhampur, Odisha: A 28-year-old labourer allegedly strangled his 22-year-old wife to death and chopped her body into pieces before disposing of those into a gorge in Rushikulya River in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Friday. The incident took place in Bhagabanpur village in Sorada police station area. He was questioned after being picked up on the basis of an FIR lodged against him by his mother-in-law in Kodala police station area on Thursday. "Following a heated exchange of words at their home on Wednesday night, the accused strangled his wife to death and carried her body to the gorge, chopped it into five pieces with an axe and threw those into the river," a police officer said. He said though the e...

The accused, 24-year-old Hemanth Kunje, murdered the courier boy, Hemanth Naik, on February 7 when the latter went to deliver the phone, the police said.                                                                   For reprentational purpose HASSAN: A youth, who was desperate to own an iPhone, killed a 20-year-old courier boy from an e-commerce major, stashed the body in the bathroom for two days and then burnt it half a kilometre away from his house at Arasikere of Hassan district. The accused, 24-year-old Hemanth Kunje, murdered the courier boy, Hemanth Naik, on February 7 when the latter went to deliver the phone, the police said. Kunje was picked up when he was found moving around suspiciously at the KSRTC bus stand in Arasikere on Saturday night. He was later arrested as he was found in possession of Naik’s phon...

 Tate County Sheriff  Lance said deputies caught up with Crum outside his own home and arrested him. Behind the residence they found two handymen slain by gunfire — one in the road, another in an SUV. Law enforcement personnel investigate the scene of multiple shootings on Arkabutla Dam Road in Arkabutla. ARKABUTLA: A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather Friday at multiple locations in a tiny rural community in northern Mississippi, the sheriff said, leaving investigators searching for clues to what motivated the rampage. Armed with a shotgun and two handguns, 52-year-old Richard Dale Crum opened fire at about 11 a.m. and killed a man in the driver's seat of a pickup truck parked outside a convenience store in Arkabutla, near the Tennessee state line, Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance said. Deputies were working the crime scene when a second 911 call alerted authorities to another shooting a few miles away. After arriving at a home, they f...