A 28-year-old man today allegedly axed his wife, daughter and sister-in-law to death following a quarrel in Bharveli locality near here, police said.
The accused, identified as Uttam Taram, was unemployed and living at his in-laws' place for the last two months. He often quarrelled with his wife Laxmi Bai (24) and had allegedly tried to strangle her once in the past, Balaghat Inspector General of Police (IGP) D C Sagar said.
This afternoon, he had another fight with his wife and in a fit of rage, he killed her, his daughter Kanak (1) and sister-in-law Sunita (18), the IGP said.
Another sister of his wife, Swati (16), got injured when she tried to intervene and was rushed to a hospital in Nagpur, Sagar said, adding, a case has been registered against him and police have launched a manhunt to nab the absconding accused.
