Aizawl, June 12: A man killed his
83-year-old ailing father in Mizoram’s Champhai district last night by
smashing his head and cutting his throat with a saw. Locals said he
appeared to be mentally troubled.
Police said Laltluangkima, 35, also known
as Mangmanga, lived with his father, sister, brother-in-law and their
three kids in his father’s house at Khawzawl Vengthar in east Mizoram.
Around 11.45pm when his father, Lianhenga,
with whom he was sharing a bed, was sleeping, Mangmanga attacked him
with sharp objects, including a saw.
Police sources said preliminary
investigations suggested that the man killed his father by smashing his
head against the wooden frame of their bed and then tortured his body.
There were multiple injuries on the body and the throat was apparently cut with a saw.
Mangmanga’s brother-in-law was away when
the incident took place. When he started attacking his father, his
sister and two of the kids fled leaving a four-year-old girl on the bed,
sources in the village said.
“After killing his father, the man went
looking for his sister and her kids but did not find them. He
fortunately failed to notice the girl who was hiding under a blanket,” a
neighbour said over phone.
Sources said the four-year-old girl also heard the sound of a saw cutting the throat of her grandfather.
The police are yet to recover the murder
weapon. All Mangmanga told the police was that they would “never find
it”, the sources said.
The accused, holding a knife, also
threatened to kill his neighbours who immediately ran to their houses.
However, they soon managed to overpower him, tied him up and handed him
over to Khawzawl police.
“Till this morning, when I visited him in
the police lock-up, Mangmanga appeared not to be himself. He looked
mentally troubled,” a local leader of Young Mizo Association told The Telegraph over phone.
He said Mangmanga was a heavy drinker but
did not have a history of violence. Quoting family sources, he said the
accused had not drunk for the three-four days and was taking good care
of his ailing father and even slept with him on the same bed.