Man beheads in-law over property feud
A MAN in India was arrested after walking around with his sister-in-law's dismembered head, Makkal Osai reported.
Farmers working in their fields in West Bengal's Bharatgar town were shocked to see the man carrying a bloodied head.
They quickly contacted the police. Others began following the man.
The police arrived and detained the man who was identified as 55-year-old Bimal Mondal.
Apparently, Bimal had admitted to killing and beheading his sister-in-law with a sickle following a property dispute.
According to reports, the sister-in-law and her husband's family had been feuding since her husband died by suicide three months ago.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
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