A 24-year-old woman employee of Infosys was reportedly hacked to death by a hitherto unidentified young man in Nungambakkam railway station on Friday morning.
According to police, the victim S.Swathi worked in Infosys and was a resident of South Gangai Amman Koil Street, Choolaimedu. She was waiting at platform number 2 of the railway station to board a train to work.
Sources at the railway station said a man approached her as she was waiting, and soon, an argument broke out between them. Subsequently he took out a sharp weapon and hacked her to death.
"We could not see anything further as a huge crowd gathered around the woman. Soon after the attack the man fled the spot," said a shop keeper at the station.
The railway police has registered a case and are investigating.
The report was first published in www.thehindu.com