UP: 60-year-old woman beaten to death by drunk Holi revellers

In a shocking incident reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Mevati Tola locality, 60-year-old woman was thrashed to death and five members of her family were injured when they opposed drunk Holi revellers from celebrating the festival outside their house on Monday, police said.

The Holi revellers, in an intoxicated contidion, got inside the woman's house and beat her to death with sticks and stone, Additional Superintendent of Police (city) Prashant Kumar Prasad said.

When other family members made an effort to rescue the woman, five of them, including two women and three children, were also thrashed, the police officer said.

In another incident reported from an area which comes under the jurisdiction of Ekdil police station, youth under the influence of alcohol drove a tractor at high speed and injured six people.

The tractor got damaged after hitting an electricity pole. The youth was handed over to the police and the injured was taken to a hospital, police said.

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