KEVON FELMINE

A Pe­nal woman has been mur­dered in a do­mes­tic dis­pute, this morn­ing.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as 25-year-old Resh­ma Kan­chan, a moth­er of two.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, at about 8 am, Resh­ma had just left her Lal­too Trace Ex­ten­sion home in Pe­nal, on her way to work, when she was at­tacked.

The sus­pect al­leged­ly chopped her sev­er­al times about the neck and shoul­ders.  Her head re­port­ed­ly was al­most sev­ered from her body dur­ing the at­tack.

The sus­pect re­port­ed­ly then at­tempt­ed to take his own life while dri­ving away from the scene of the crime. The ve­hi­cle is said to have crashed not too far away.

Po­lice dis­cov­ered Resh­ma’s body ly­ing in the dri­ve­way of one of her neigh­bours.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the sus­pect was tak­en to hos­pi­tal for med­ical at­ten­tion, and cur­rent­ly is un­der po­lice cus­tody.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.