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Assam: Man throws his sick mother into river

| @indiablooms | Aug 09, 2018, at 07:27 pm

Guwahati, Aug 9 (IBNS): A shocking incident has come to light as a man threw his sick mother into a river in central Assam’s Nagaon district.

According to the reports, a person named Pramod Agarwala pushed his sick mother Ratna Devi into the Kolong river from a wooden bridge located near the Nagaon Girl’s College on late Wednesday night.

The man carried his mother in a rickshaw and pushed her into the river.

The mother-son was staying at a rented house at Haiborgaon area in Nagaon town.

As the incident happened, locals immediately informed police, who rushed to the area.

Police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams have been engaged in a search operation to rescue the woman.

Meanwhile, Nagaon police have arrested the man.

The man claimed that, after pushing his mother he also tried to jump into the river, but couldn’t do so.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
 

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