Tamil Nadu

Girl fatally hit by car

TAMBARAM: Eight-year-old P. Arogya Daisy died after a car hit her while she was playing outside her house in Sholinganallur on Saturday evening. The car was backing up and the driver had not noticed the girl, traffic police said.

Daisy was a resident of School Street, Sholinganallur. As her school was closed, she was playing alone on the street. Residents of the street alerted her relatives and the injured girl was rushed to a private hospital in Perungudi. She was then referred to Government General Hospital, where she died in the evening. She was a Standard III student at a government school near her house, the police said. Car driver Prabhu (25) was arrested.

A motorcycle-borne duo snatched a gold chain weighing about six sovereigns from a woman in Nanganallur on Saturday evening. Manimegalai, a resident of Thillaiganga Nagar, was returning home from a temple when the youths intercepted her, snatched the chain and fled.

A woman was stabbed to death by her husband in Kallukuttai, Perungudi, on Sunday.

The Thoraipakkam police said Yesaiah (46), a painter of advertisement hoardings, was living in Kannagi Nagar in Thoraipakkam while his wife Bhagyam (43) and their three children were living in Kallukuttai. The two are reported to have quarrelled often. On Sunday, Yesaiah had insisted that his wife sign divorce papers, but she refused.

In a fit of rage, Yesaiah pulled out a knife from the kitchen and stabbed her. Neighbours admitted her to a private hospital nearby, where she succumbed to injuries, the police said. The neighbours also overpowered Yesaiah and handed him over to the Thoraipakkam police.

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