Intruders break into 2 houses, kill 2 elderly

Sixty-seven-year-old Rasham Rani screamed for help as assailants attacked her with a knife, stabbing her twice, in her Pocket D-17 house in Sector-3 of Rohini on Tuesday morning.

The neighbours heard her cries, but dismissed them as another outburst of a person suffering from depression. Rani had been diagnosed with chronic depression 10 years ago.

Rani died later at the hospital.

Around half hour before they attacked Rani, the gang of robbers had broken into another house in the locality and stabbed 65-year-old Shanti Devi to death, in her Pocket G-30 house.

A wallet that the gang stole from Shanti's house was found at Rani's home, allowing police to connect the dots.

Outer Delhi police are now on high alert and have conducted several raids to nab the "desperate" robbers, who murdered the two women within a span of 25 minutes, a police officer said.

Police were told that three robber had broken into Shanti's house around 1.30 am, after undoing the latch on the door.

"My mother slept in the hall. It appears that the robbers opened the latch of the door by slipping their hand through the window. My younger brother woke up when he heard noises and saw a man in his room. He caught hold of the man while my mother, who was in the hall, raised the alarm. The other two robbers freed their accomplice from my brother's hold and on their way out stabbed my mother in the back," said Dilip Kumar, Shanti's son.

The incident was reported around 1.30 am and the robber fled with two wallets, police said.

Shanti was rushed to Jaipur Golden Hospital where she was declared "dead on arrival".

At 1.55 am, the police control room received another call. This time to report a break-in at Rani's house. Police said the gang entered Rani's house by removing the window mesh. They took a few silver coins and Rs 1,000 from the house and were escaping when Rani woke up, police said.

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