Elderly couple murdered at night; hunt on for assailants

Second incident within a week of senior citizens being murdered in their homes

An elderly cloth merchant and his wife were bludgeoned to death at their house in Sidlaghatta in Chikkaballapura district on Wednesday night. This is the second incident this week where senior citizens were murdered in their homes.

The victims have been identified as Srinivasulu (77) and his wife Padmavathy (66). The couple lived alone as their two daughters had moved to Bengaluru after marriage. The police suspect that that they were murdered late night. “Evidence shows that the unidentified accused were able to gain entry into the house through the ventilator. Both Srinivasulu and Padmavathy were attacked with a blunt object. The attackers escaped presumably from the backdoor,” said a police officer.