National-level woman volleyball player hacked to death

 

Barasat (WB), 26 March 2016: A national-level woman volleyball player was on Friday hacked to death allegedly by a youth in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.

 

The youth hit the 16-year-old girl, Sangita Aich, with a sharp weapon several times at Natun Pukur locality and fled, Superintendent of Police Tanmay Roychowdhury said.

 

 

"The assailant, Subrata Singha or Raja, about 18 or 19, had met her, apparently on the volleyball field, proposed to her, been turned down and did not take it well," reports NDTV.

 

Some members of Tina’s family are now claiming Raja had threatened her in the past and the family had even gone to the police but no one followed up, report added.

 

Aich was taken to the hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival.

 

A manhunt has been launched to nab the accused. He is a resident of Barrackpore 15 kilometres away from Barasat.