5 including 4 women of a family stabbed to death

New Delhi, Oct 8: Five persons, including four women of a family and a security guard, were stabbed to death in the early hours of Saturday in Shahdara’s Mansarovar Park area. The police are yet to ascertain the motive and identify the killers.

The victims, identified as Urmila Jindal (82), her daughters Sangeeta Gupta (56), Nupur Jindal (48), Anjali Jindal (38), and security guard Rakesh (42), were found dead at their residential complex 1/561 on Grand Trunk Road where they lived with seven families, all of whom are relatives. Urmila used to live on the first floor of the residential complex with her daughters.

Around 7 a.m., when a few of the relatives stepped out for a morning walk in the park inside the complex, they saw Rakesh lying lifeless near the staircase with multiple stab injuries on the throat. The family immediately called the police who reached the spot. Bodies of the women were found nearly an hour later.

“After we called the police, we needed to move the cars parked outside [the residential complex], so we went to the first floor to ask Sangeeta or Anjali for the car keys. That’s when we saw all four of them lying in a pool of blood in one of their rooms,” said Urmila’s nephew Rakesh Jindal, adding that two of the bodies were on the bed and the other two on the floor.

Claiming that the motive behind the murders was robbery, the family said that when they visited the room where the women were found dead, they saw the almirahs open and articles lying around. “The motive is obviously theft because their cupboards were open and the belongings were on the floor. So far we don’t know what’s missing because we weren’t allowed inside the room after the police reached,” said the deceased octogenarian’s nephew.

Initial news reports alleged that the motive behind the murder is a property dispute among the family, which the nephew and other relatives denied.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Nupur Prasad said that the police are investigating the murder from all angles, including the property dispute and robbery attempt. “It has come to the fore that the family was trying to dispose of some property. Also, though the almirahs were open, the jewellery the women were wearing was intact; the laptop and phone were also lying there. The entry was friendly,” she said.

According to the victims’ relatives, Sangeeta had been staying with her mother for the past 20 years after her husband passed away while Nupur was mentally disturbed and Anjali chose not to get married. Urmila’s husband, Ram Krishan Jindal, died a natural death a few years ago. The couple had a son who died at the age of four.

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Israel broadens airstrikes in Lebanon, killing displaced families without warning

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November 13,2024

Beirut: The Israeli army on Tuesday continued to launch attacks against civilians in Lebanon, targeting them in several areas without prior evacuation warnings.

However, 13 airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs in the space of only three hours were preceded by evacuation warnings.

The attacks caused no injuries but resulted in widespread destruction of residential buildings and commercial, medical and educational centers.

The airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Bekaa region, reaching Akkar in Lebanon’s far north, erased any hope of a near-term ceasefire settlement.

The strikes were accompanied by an announcement on Israel’s Channel 14 that “the Israeli army has expanded its operations in southern Lebanon to areas it had not reached since the beginning of the ground operation.”

About 50 days have passed since Israel intensified its hostile operations in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. The death toll from these confrontations and attacks has passed 3,200, with more than 14,000 wounded.

For the first time, an airstrike targeted a mountainous area between Baalchmay and Aabadiyeh on the road leading to Aley, destroying a building housing displaced people.

The mayor of Baalchmay, Adham Al-Danaf, confirmed that “the airstrike targeted a residential building in the Dhour Aabadiyeh area.”

The initial toll from the Ministry of Health showed “five people killed and two injured.”

The raids that targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in the morning, unlike nightly raids before, caused huge destruction. Those who evacuated their homes after Israeli warnings, used their phones to record the collapse of empty buildings in Sfeir, Haret Hreik, Bir Al-Abed, Mrayjeh, Laylaki and Hadath.

Israeli warplanes also targeted Tyre, where a strike on a building killed three people and injured many others, while a raid on Tefahta killed a man identified as Kifah Khalil and his family.

Attacks were widespread, with Yater and Zebqine subject to artillery shelling, a civilian being killed in Hermel, and further attacks on Bouday and an area between the towns of Srifa and Arsoun.

A raid on the town of Siddiqin killed two people and injured several others, while an attack on the Mechref farm led to one fatality and multiple injuries.

The search for those missing after an Israeli raid on the town of Ain Yaacoub in Akkar, in the northernmost part of Lebanon, continued until dawn.

During the operation, 14 bodies were retrieved, identified as those of residents displaced from the town of Arabsalim in the Iqlim Al-Tuffah area of the south, along with members of a Syrian family, a mother and three of her children. Additionally, there were 10 people in critical condition.

The targeted residence belongs to a Lebanese citizen, Hussein Hashim, who is reported to be a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

An airstrike on the town of Saksakiyeh in the Sidon region on Monday night resulted in yet another tragedy.

It appeared that the intended target was the Shoumer family, who just days before lost Hussein Amin Shoumer and his two sisters in a drone strike near Al-Awali River.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued additional evacuation warnings for towns in the southern region along the Litani River, which, according to estimates from the mayors, are currently 90 percent uninhabited.

In the meantime, Hezbollah announced its continued efforts to “combat the intrusions of Israeli forces and to strike military installations and towns in the north.”

Hezbollah said in a statement that it confronted “an Israeli Hermes 450 drone in the airspace of Nabatieh and forced it to leave Lebanese airspace.”

The party also announced that it targeted “Kfar Blum settlement with a rocket salvo.”

On the Israeli side, air raid sirens sounded in areas of Upper and Western Galilee and in the town of Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings.

The Israeli army confirmed that “a drone exploded in Nesher, east of Haifa, without activating the air raid sirens,” and that “a drone launched from Lebanon crashed into a school in Gesher HaZiv, north of Nahariya.”

Israel’s Channel 13 reported the Israeli military’s assessment regarding Hezbollah’s military strength, claiming that the group currently possesses approximately 100 precision missiles, thousands of artillery shells, and hundreds of rockets. Additionally, it was highlighted that “there are around 200 Lebanese towns that remain unvisited.”

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