Woman's body recovered from trunk

Kohima, Aug 12 (UNI) The Kohima police recovered the body of a woman, mother of two children, from her residence at the Naga Hospital Colony here and detained her husband and a minor helping girl of the family.

Official sources said here today that the victim's husband made a hullabaloo that his wife was killed by someone and kept her body in a trunk.

On receiving information, police sent the body for post-mortem yesterday.

The sources said that there was no external injury on the victim's body and the cause of death will be known only after receiving the post-mortem report.

The husband and wife were the employees of Naga Hospital here and they have two children.

Police suspected some foul play and detained the husband and their maidservant, a six-year-old girl, for interrogation and awaiting the post-mortem report for further investigation, the sources said.

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