Shattered Skulls, Splattered Blood: Gruesome Details of Kerala Mass Murder

Shattered Skulls, Splattered Blood: Rumors of horror were spread from Venjaramoodu in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala when a 23-year-old youth allegedly killed five persons in three locations and went to the cops on Monday to confess the deed.

Among them were the teenager brother of the accused, his grandmother, paternal uncle, aunt, and a young woman who is said to be his girlfriend. He has also confessed to the killing of his mother, who survived the massacre but is in critical condition.

Gruesome details of Venjaramoodu mass murder

Admitted by the police officials, the entry of the three crime scenes was that what they saw was one of the most brutal assaults that Kerala has seen in the recent past.

The woman, a postgraduate student of a Kollam college and claimed to be Afan's girlfriend, sat dead on a chair in one of the three houses with a pool of blood lying beneath her head, according to the police findings.

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She got a massive injury on her forehead which seems to be caused by a heavy hammer blow, and she may have died from that single blow before even she would have thought to slump down from the chair, PTI reported.

As per the report, the accused appeared to have struck the woman several more times with the hammer, since her face was totally disfigured.

The table beside where Farsana's body was found had a photograph featuring the accused placed on it, with several blood droplets splattered on it.

Afsan, the accused's youngest brother, was 13 years old and found dead at the spot. He is said to have struck his brother, who had a very close bond with him, multiple times on the head with a hammer.

Afan's murderous spree displayed psychotic symptoms as he scattered several 500 notes around the corpse of his younger brother. He had supposedly had taken him home on the pretext of bringing Kuzhimanthi-a type of Arabian meat-rice dish-for the teenager.

The 55-year-old mother of the accused, Shemi, is now undergoing treatment in a medical college hospital after being dragged on the ground and hammered.

But he did not stop there and went to his paternal uncle Latheef's house and killed him most cruelly, according to the report.

According to the police, Latheef was supposed to have been attacked by more than 20 hammer blows on the head. His body was found slumped in a chair, with his head fractured into innumerable pieces.

Latheef's wife, Sajitha, was attacked from behind by the accused while in the kitchen preparing tea for him. His body was also found lying near the kitchen after receiving multiple blows from a hammer.

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"It was difficult to identify the victims as they were all covered in blood. When we lifted Latheef, someone's fingers went inside his head through a huge hole at the back of his skull," a neighbour, recounting the horrifying scenes at the murder site, told PTI.

The sequence of events

Though the police have not commented on the events involved, it is suspected that Afan started his killing spree with his 88-year-old paternal grandmother, Salma Beevi, at her home near Pangode, Venjaramoodu.

As per the Police, Afan had gone with a hammer while going to Salma Beevi's house. He killed her and went to the house of Latheef and Sajitha in Chullalam.

They also suspect that after committing the crime with Latheef and Sajitha, he might have picked his brother Afsan from school. Police have further believed that he had already picked up Farsana before dropped her at his home; after that, he allegedly attacked his mother first followed by his brother and his girlfriend.

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