Patna, April 28: The spate of blade attacks continued unabated as four persons suffered slash injuries today despite police claiming that adequate personnel have been deployed in all parts of Patna City.
The suspension of M.M. Mandal, the station house officer of Khajekala police station late last evening by Patna senior superintendent of police Amrit Raj because of his inability to nab the culprits, seemed to have little effect as two middle-aged women, a man and a girl came under the blade today.
Around 8.30am, 35-year-old Rekha Devi, a resident of Noon ka Chauraha, was walking down a street when a man, whose face was covered with a cloth, came on a bicycle and almost grazed her. Nearly 20 minutes later, she felt a sharp pain on her left arm and saw blood oozing out. The woman rushed to a private clinic for medication. The second incident occurred around 10am. Forty-year-old Arjunissah had gone to a vegetable market and felt the same sensation. A resident of the Sadar Gali area, she said: “A man whose face was covered brushed past me on a bicycle. After 10 minutes or so, I found my right arm bleeding. I rushed back home and my husband took me to a private clinic,” the woman told The Telegraph.
The next incident occurred around five hours later. A 40-year-old man, identified as Mohamad Hanif, noticed that his left arm had been slit. This incident, too, occurred in the Noon ka Chauraha area.
The fourth attack occurred around 5pm in the Sadar Gali area under Khajekala police station. Ten-year-old Fiza was going to her father’s shop when she found one of her arms slit. She was taken to a private clinic for treatment.
Around 8.30pm last night, eight-year-old Mala Kumari suffered a blade injury in the Noon ka Chauraha area.
“After yesterday’s incident, we thought that the men were changing their modus operandi. With a strong police presence in the Khajekala police station area, we thought the criminals were carrying out attacks in the evening. But today’s incidents have taken place in daylight,” a police officer said
