Two more murders in South Bangalore

South Bangalore seems to be becoming increasingly unsafe

Neighbours and residents of the three victims in Tilak Nagar grieve outside the house.u00a0 On Tuesday, Satyabhama(80), Jayasri (50) and Vijayalakshmi (60) were attacked at their home by intruders and suffocated with pillows. They were killed in the afternoon between 1 pm and 2 pm.

South Bangalore seems to be becoming increasingly unsafe. The area has seen 14 murders this month, of which nine were women.

Two more murders were reported yesterday.

A single woman was killed in her house in Sarvabhavmanagar yesterday afternoon and a man was killed on Sarjapur Outer Ring Road when he was returning home from work on Tuesday night.

Housewife killed

Gayathri (26) is suspected to have been strangled between 12 and 12.30 pm when she was alone. Her body was discovered by her five-year-old daughter Tanvi who had returned home from school at 12.30 pm.

Tanvi found her mother lying with a pillow on her face and the wire of a mobile charger around her neck. She then ran outside and started to cry. When her neighbours asked her what happened she told them of her mother.

Police suspect that Gayatri may have been raped and then murdered. Her husband Nanjundegowda is also being questioned.

"Today, he told his boss that he was going to Yelahanka to meet some relatives and did not come to work. So, we suspect him too," said police sources.u00a0 Nanjundegowda works for a cable network in Koramangala.u00a0

The police do not suspect murder for gain since there was nothing missing from the house.

Man stabbed

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Nagir (23) was stabbed to death by three robbers on Sarjapur Outer Ring Road.

He was an employee of an alluminium frame works shop was returning home from work. Nagir was from Muzaffarabad in Uttar Pradesh.

The stats
>>South Bangalore has many retired people living there, who are shocked by the number of murders happening there.
>>In Basavanagudi, JP Nagar and Jayanagar alone there are 1.13 lakh resident.
>>Of them 64,000 are retired, 19,000 are above 80 years, and 11,000 are single women.