Bantwal: In another suspected case of Dengue fever a 39-year old man passed away in a hospital in Mangaluru on Saturday night. Prashant alias Pajju Ponnodi a resident of B.Mooda village near Ponnodi, is the deceased.

Prashant was admitted to a hospital in Mangaluru following fever from several days and was a suspected case of Dengue. Prashant breathed his last on Friday night at the hospital.

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Hathras (UP) (PTI): The blood-soaked body of an elderly man was found inside his house in Paharpur village here on Tuesday morning, police said.

The deceased, Jagdish Prasad Sharma, 75, who lived alone, had gone to sleep in his house on Monday night, officials said.

On Tuesday morning, his blood-soaked body was lying on a cot, with marks on his head and body indicating blows from a sharp-edged weapon, they said, adding that the police suspect murder.

Police and forensic teams reached the spot upon receiving information and sent the body for a post-mortem, they said.

Additional Superintendent of Police Ramanand Kushwaha said that Sharma, a retired Health Department employee, had been living alone since his wife's death during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He owned around 20-25 bighas of land and was also engaged in money lending, the officer said.