A 79-year-old man in Mumbai attacked his wife with a hammer, strangled her, and stabbed her multiple times with a knife over a disagreement about their daughter's marital alliance with a man from another caste. He also stabbed their daughter.
The victim, a resident of Srishti Apartment in Jankipuram, said the incident happened around 6am when he had gone to buy a packet of milk outside his complex
Deputy police commissioner (South) Chandan Chowdhary said the assailant fired four to five rounds before escaping from the scene from the rear of a canteen
Karan Chaudhary said that he was riding his scooter to his Khajuri Khas home, when he spotted a man holding his abdomen and trying to stop the bleeding with one hand and waiving his other hand for help