Man who hacked woman at Chennai suburban station succumbs to injury

A man, who hacked and injured a woman at a suburban railway station here a week ago and inflicted wounds on himself, died at a hospital here Friday, police said. The man, who was in a coma, did not respond to treatment and died around noon, a Government Railway Police officer told PTI.

Last Friday night, the man had hacked the woman with a sickle at the Chetpet railway station after having heated arguments over his proposal to marry her. The accused then injured himself with the same weapon, before jumping on the railway track, police had said.

Both of them, natives of Erode and knew each other, were admitted to two separate government hospitals. The woman was still undergoing treatment, the officer said.

The incident, which brought back memories of the murder of a young woman techie in 2016 in Nungambakkam railway station here, stunned people on the platform.