Mau: A mentally-unstable man killed a 60-year-old woman and injured three others in Mau’s Ghosi town in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
The man allegedly attacked people with a bamboo stick.
The police, cited local residents and said that the accused was mentally unstable and suffered from seizures, including epileptic episodes.
The man was arrested soon after the incident and is being questioned, officials said, adding that police and forensic teams were collecting evidence.
The incident was reported from the Kasba Khas locality under the Ghosi police station area around 5.30 am, when Ram Avatar Sonkar (30), a local resident, allegedly picked up a bamboo stick lying on the road and attacked some people, the police said.
The injured were rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared Gulabi Devi dead. She had sustained a serious head injury, the police said, as reported by PTI.
The police rushed to the spot after receiving information about the attack and took the injured to the hospital, Ghosi circle officer Satyendra Bhushan Tiwari said.
The three other injured persons were discharged after receiving treatment, he said.