Labourer Axes Sleeping Children To Death in Katni

Katni (Madhya Pradesh): A man axed to death his two children following a domestic dispute late on Sunday night in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh. He fled after killing the children, police said.

Rakesh Nishad, 36, used to work as a labourer in Khirhani Fatak area under Kotwali police station. On Sunday night, he killed both his sleeping children - daughter Kashish, 14, and son Sahil, 12, with an axe.

Nishad's wife Fulwati woke up and rushed to the other room to find both her children lying in a pool of blood as her husband fled from the house. Kotwali police station in-charge Shailesh Mishra told reporters that the police has filed a case on the basis of Fulwati's statement. The police is trying to trace the killer father. (IANS)