The police suspect incidents could be a fallout of 2019 double murder.
Two women — A. Shanmugathai, 50, and S. Shanthi, 45 — were hacked to death by unidentified assailants, who hurled petrol bombs on them before attacking them with sharp weapons, at Marugalkurichi, under the Nanguneri police station limits, on Saturday.
The severed head of Shanmugathai was found a few metres away in the village. The police suspect that the murders could be revenge for a double murder reported in March.
Superintendent of Police, Tirunelveli district, N. Manivannan, who inspected the scene of crime, said that special teams had been formed to nab the accused. This is the fifth murder between two rival groups of the same village ever since one Nambirajan eloped with T. Vanmathi, 18, of the locality last year. Vanmathi’s brother, Chellasamy and his accomplices were arrested for beheading…
