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Badaun: In a horrifying double murder case, two children were hacked to death on Tuesday in Badaun’s Baba Colony, police said. Following this, one of the accused involved in the incident was killed in an encounter with the police.
“Today evening an unfortunate incident took place in which two children were killed. The police reached the spot and the accused tried to escape. We chased the accused. He fired at the police and was killed in retaliatory fire. The accused died on the spot. The police is investigating the case,” Bareilly Inspector-General of Police Rakesh Kumar said.
Reason yet to be ascertained
After two children were hacked to death in Badaun’s Baba Colony, the father of the deceased has said that there were two people involved in the murder and they are still unaware as to why this incident happened.
“I was unaware of the encounter (of the accused). He (the accused) was trying to run away but the police caught him. There were two people. I live outside. We had no interaction with them before. We are unaware as to why this happened,” he said.
Accused Sajid killed in encounter
As per police, the accused Sajid entered the house yesterday at around 7:30 pm and went to the terrace where the children were playing. He attacked the two children and murdered them. He then came down where the crowd tried to hold him back but he escaped. Police teams swung into action when they got to know that the accused had escaped. The accused fired at the police and was killed in retaliatory fire. The murder weapon and the revolver have been recovered
Heavy Police force deployed
Meanwhile, heavy police security was deployed at the Baba colony located near the Mandi Samiti outpost as locals protested against the ghastly double-murder.
Badaun District Magistrate (DM) Manoj Kumar said that some people got agitated after the incident and they were asked to maintain peace.
