Dec 1, 2010
In a 30-minute bloodbath that covered two square kilometres, a former CRPF constable, clad in combat uniform, hacked to death seven people including his own children on Wednesday morning.
Carrying country-made bombs and knives, Metta Sankara Rao chased and hacked each one of them before surrendering to the police.
The incident took place in Mettapeta village of Jalumuru mandal in this district. According to the police, Sankara Rao had lost his job after he killed his wife five years ago. Since then he had been living in his village after being released on bail. While the police said he had decided to wipe out all witnesses, the carnage did not stop with the killing of witnesses. Sankara Rao started his killing spree by hacking off the heads of his two children and hiding them in the sanctum sanctorum of the Someswara Temple in Srimukhalingam.
The police said after killing his wife Vijayalakshmi, Sankara Rao had made all-out efforts to hush up the case. But his close relative Boddepalle Koteswara Rao, alias Appanna, had objected and made Vijayalakshmi’s relatives lodge a police complaint.
Sankara Rao was arrested and came out on bail but he lost his job. Since then he had been hatching plans to wipe out the witnesses. On Tuesday at about 10 pm, he set ablaze a hut and a heap of dry grass to divert the villagers’ attention. He also hurled bombs and created an impression that dacoits were raiding the village.
Source Deccan Chronicle
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