Vellore dad drowns 2 girls, says he's no means to raise them

VELLORE: A father of three murdered his two daughters by drowning them in a well in a village near Vellore on Tuesday morning. Later, confessing to the crime, the leather worker said he did it because he did not have the means to raise them although he had spared his four-month-old son.

An employee of a leather shoe-making unit in Melvisaram village in Vellore district, Mohamed Ali, 30, had approached the Arcot taluk police at 11 am on Tuesday and lodged a complaint that his baby girls, Taniya Tashiba, 3 and Ghaziya Nashiba, 2 were missing from his house since morning.

Superintendent of police TS Anbu said a complaint was lodged and investigations conducted, during which family members informed them that they had spotted two strangers on a motorbike near their residence, and they suspected that their babies may have been kidnapped. Read more: Vellore dad drowns 2 girls, says he's no means to raise them

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