Triple Murder Rocks Chandanagar

Hyderabad: A 25-year-old woman, her middle-aged mother and her 5-year-old daughter were today found dead in their house in Chandanagar area here, police said.

Chandanagar Police Station Inspector N Tirupati Rao identified the three as G Aparna Devi, her mother Jayalaxmi and Aparna's daughter Karthikeya, adding that neighbours alerted the police after a foul smell started emanating from the house.

"While Aparna's body, with her head smashed, was found in the kitchen, the bodies of her mother and her daughter were found on the cot," the Inspector said. He said that Aparna, who worked in an electronics store, was staying separately from her husband for the past two years. A case of murder has been registered and further investigations were on, Rao said.

PTI