Mother poisons son to death, chops his body into pieces
Theni (TN): In a macabre incident in Tamil Nadu, an engineer was allegedly poisoned to death by his mother before she chopped him into pieces, apparently frustrated over his tipsy ways, police said on Tuesday.
The incident happened near neighbouring Cumbum.
The headless torso of the victim Vigneswaran, in his late 20s, was earlier found with his limbs chopped and police had investigated the matter after registering a case.
The body parts were strewn in different parts of the town, they said.
Police said enquiries revealed that a woman and a man were seen dumping something in a gunny bag at the location.
They then accessed CCTV visuals and questioned the mother of the victim, who admitted to her alleged crime, police said.
She was apparently frustrated over her son's tipsy ways, as he had often created a ruckus in an inebriated state.
He is said to have faced disciplinary action in his workplace earlier, after being found drunk at his job.
He was also allegedly involved in some theft cases, police said.
On Sunday, when Vigneswaran came home, his mother served him poison laced food and he subsequently died after consuming it, police said.
Later, the woman severed the head from the body and chopped off the limbs with a machete before dumping them off elsewhere, they said.
Police said investigation was on to find out who helped the woman in disposing off her son's body.
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Tsunami alert after a volcano in Indonesia has several big eruptions and thousands are told to leave
Jakarta, Apr 17: Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area.
The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large eruptions in the past 24 hours, Indonesia's Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said. Authorities raised their volcano alert to its highest level.
At least 800 residents left the area earlier Wednesday.
Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million people, has 120 active volcanoes. It is prone to volcanic activity because it sits along the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean.
Authorities urged tourists and others to stay at least 6 km (3.7 miles) from the 725-metre (2,378 foot) Ruang volcano.
Officials worry that part of the volcano could collapse into the sea and cause a tsunami as in a 1871 eruption there.
Tagulandang island to the volcano's northeast is again at risk, and its residents are among those being told to evacuate.
Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency said residents will be relocated to Manado, the nearest city, on Sulawesi island, a journey of six hours by boat.
In 2018, the eruption of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano caused a tsunami along the coasts of Sumatra and Java after parts of the mountain fell into the ocean, killing 430 people.
