Overview
- Police say a father, identified as Nandu Yadav, allegedly attacked his three daughters inside their Turukdih village home with a sharp-edged weapon and the children died at the scene.
- The victims have been named as Pallavi Yadav, 14, and her six-year-old twin sisters Riddhi and Siddhi Yadav.
- Officers arrested the accused at the scene and protected him from an angry crowd while taking possession of the bodies.
- A forensic team examined the house and the bodies were sent to Sadar Hospital for post-mortem; officials say findings and detailed interrogation of the accused will guide the probe.
- Local residents reported the victims’ mother and son were in another part of the house and escaped unharmed, and the killings have left the village shocked and grieving.