Depressed Bengaluru techie injures 24 in sword attack spree, shot dead
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A 25-year-old software engineer said to be suffering from depression attacked people on the streets with a sword on Tuesday and injured 24 people, including his parents and two policemen, before being shot dead.
Balvinder Singh, a resident of Karimnagar, was undergoing treatment for psychological problems following his failure in the civil services examination recently, according to reports.
An employee with a multinational IT firm in Bengaluru, Balvinder was staying with his parents for the past one month and undergoing treatment.
This morning at about 6.30am we got a call from Laxmi Nagar area about a person roaming with a sword, slashing everyone he saw on the street. When our team reached there, he even attacked two of our men and tried to snatch a pistol from our CI. In unavoidable circumstances, our officer had to shoot at him, L Subbarayudu, additional SP (operations), Karimnagar told Hindustan Times.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/...gDZk2Ct1M.html
A 25-year-old software engineer said to be suffering from depression attacked people on the streets with a sword on Tuesday and injured 24 people, including his parents and two policemen, before being shot dead.
Balvinder Singh, a resident of Karimnagar, was undergoing treatment for psychological problems following his failure in the civil services examination recently, according to reports.
An employee with a multinational IT firm in Bengaluru, Balvinder was staying with his parents for the past one month and undergoing treatment.
This morning at about 6.30am we got a call from Laxmi Nagar area about a person roaming with a sword, slashing everyone he saw on the street. When our team reached there, he even attacked two of our men and tried to snatch a pistol from our CI. In unavoidable circumstances, our officer had to shoot at him, L Subbarayudu, additional SP (operations), Karimnagar told Hindustan Times.