Double murder rocks Kaushambi

ALLAHABAD: In a shocking incident, bodies of a woman and her minor son were recovered near Chamrupur and Latpur villages respectively under

Kokhraj police station

of

Kaushambi district

on Tuesday morning.


The identities of both slain mother and son were yet to be known.

After getting the information that bodies of a 25-year-old woman and six-year-old boy were lying at a distance of around one kilometer near a rice mill field in Chamrupur village and Latpur village, senior police officials including SP (Kaushambi) Pradeep Gupta reached the spot. Forensic experts also arrived the spot to assist police officials.

SHO (Kokhraj) Rakesh Saroj said "locals first spotted the body of a minor boy lying near a rice field and then the body of an unidentified woman, 25 lying near a drain in Lalpur village.

Saroj said that both mother and her son were murdered. Postmortem would reveal further details. Killers made an abortive attempt to conceal the identity by using

acid

on slain woman's face, the SHO added.