Special team mobilized for Mugu incident probe

Mugu, Oct 27: A special team of the Karnali province police has set out to Chhayanath Rara municipality-6 Mindu village this evening to investigate into the suspected incident of mass murder.     

A team from Jumla and two teams from Surkhet have marched to the incident site for carrying out investigation, informed Chief of Karnali Province Police Office, Deputy Inspector General of Police Bhim Dhakal.     

He further shared that a five-member team headed by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Narayan Sharma has travelled to the incident site from Surkhet for undertaking special investigation into the incident. Likewise, another team has also moved to the incident site for the investigation.     

Four persons of a single family, including a mother, two sons and a daughter were found dead at Mandu village of Chhayanath Rara Municipality-6 in Mugu district.     

The deceased have been identified as a local resident Sridevi Bohara, 28, her 11-year-old son Manoj, nine-year-old daughter Apsara and eight-month-old son Rahar, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Birendra Thapa. Shortly after being informed, a team of police reached the incident site which lies southeast of Gamgadhi, the district headquarters.     

Bodies of the deceased have been sent to the district hospital for a postmortem. Sridevi's spouse is abroad in connection of employment, it has been said. Further investigations into the case are underway, said DSP Thapa.     

According to preliminary police investigations, on 24 October, Sridevi along with her deceased sons and daughter went to her maternal house in nearby Kotilla village to receive Dashain tika. They returned home the following evening. They might have been murdered the same night, said the police. On 26 October, after seeing the main door of the house of Sridevi locked, the neighbours guessed that they might have gone to their farmland to collect vegetables.     

Later on 27 October, they contacted her maternal relatives to know the whereabouts of her. When they were told that Sridevi left her maternal house on 25 October, the neighbours broke into her house at around 10 am today to find four of them dead, it has been said. (RSS)