Bovikkanam, Kasaragod: A BSNL engineer has been found hacked to death on the street. The suspect, a neighbour who had a land dispute with him, died jumping in front of a train near Kumbala station half an hour later.
A Sudhakaran, 60, was found hacked to death 100 meters from his house on Tuesday evening at around 6.15.
He was walking home after alighting from a bus. Half an hour later, his neighbour P Radhakrishnan, 51, was found dead near the railway station. He had jumped in front of a train that had just left the station.
The police said the two had a land dispute for years. However, people's representatives had intervened to work out a compromise and the cases were withdrawn.
Sudhakaran is survived by wife Sujata and children Subhash and Suhas. Radhakrishnan leaves behind wife Bindu and daughters Sreena and Sreetha.
