Brothers killed over stolen livestock
Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C.ARUNO and R.ARAVINTAN
TWO brothers ended up dead after they were beaten up by a group of people who accused them of stealing goats and chickens, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The attack happened when several men went looking for their lost cow at a village in Sivaganga district, located in India's Tamil Nadu state.
Soon, they spotted two men inside one of the goat sheds in the village.
The group confronted the two men who were later identified as Manikandan, 30, and his brother Vignesh, 24.
It caused a commotion which brought several more villagers to the scene. Both brothers were brutally attacked.
The unconscious brothers were sent to the hospital but they died from their injuries.
Eventually, 13 people between the ages of 19 and 45 were arrested.
Police said they are investigating whether the attack was motivated by prior animosity between the brothers and the villagers.
The brothers were previously booked by the police in 2015 for involvement in a theft case.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
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