GUWAHATI, Feb 14 (AFP) - Police in India are searching for a killer -- dubbed the “stone man” for his choice of weapon -- who has struck for the sixth time in less than two months, officials said today.
The murderer's latest victim was a young man whose badly battered body was recovered from outside a Hindu temple Friday in Guwahati, the main city in the northeastern state of Assam. Police said the modus operandi was almost the same in the five other murders in Guwahati, whose victims were all men.
The killings come as “The Stoneman Murders,” a film based on the unsolved serial murders of pavement dwellers in Mumbai in 1983, hit movie theatres across the country this week. |