Accused in Andhra woman volunteer’s murder commits suicide

Amaravati: A man who brutally murdered a woman village volunteer in Andhra Pradesh’s Bapatla district four days ago committed suicide on Thursday.
Padma Rao (35), who was on the run after stabbing the woman to death on May 15, jumped under a train in Ponnur town in the early hours of Thursday. According to police, he killed himself under the Tirupati-Visakhapatnam double-decker train at Nidubrolu railway station.
Based on the identity card found in the deceased’s pocket, police informed the family and they reached the spot to identify the body as that of Padma Rao.
Rao had stabbed to death D. Sharada (27), with whom he had an extramarital relation in the past.
He attacked her when she was engaged in some work in front of her house in Chavali village in Vemuru mandal of the district on Sunday evening.
When she tried to run and save herself, he chased her and stabbed her on the neck and escaped on his two-wheeler. The victim died on the spot.