Ex-serviceman goes on the rampage, kills 6 people in Haryana''s Palwal

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Palwal, January 2

Panic spread in the town this morning after a 45-year-old man went on a killing spree and murdered six people, including a woman, in different areas of the town.

He was arrested around 6.30 am as he was roaming in a street near Sukhram Hospital.

Naresh Dhankhar, a resident of Omaxe City residential society in Sector 2, resisted his arrest by assaulting the cops. He was reportedly hit on the head and overpowered. The injured accused has been referred to the civil hospital at Faridabad.

Earlier, the incident created panic as the information about the serial attacker got viral on social media and the locals were asked to be alert and remain indoors.

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The information about his arrest was flashed around 8 am. The police who collected the information about the accused from the CCTV footage from a private hospital claimed that Naresh had assaulted and killed a middle-aged woman undergoing treatment there, before fleeing. He had attacked and killed five other people between 2 am and 4.30 am on Tuesday, it was said.

The identity of the victims is still to be ascertained. “The police are on the job to ascertain the facts, including the motive behind the killings,” said a police spokesperson.

Suspecting that the accused could be mentally ill, he said the accused who was an ex-serviceman and was in a disturbed state of mind for the past few months, had also assaulted a policeman in the city a few months back. The cop had suffered minor injuries.

The accused hails from Mahchhgar village of Faridabad district, and was a resident of Palwal for the past some time.