Chaibasa (Jharkhand), Nov 8 (PTI) A 70-year-old woman was crushed to death with a stone slab by a man in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district over an old enmity, a police officer said on Saturday.

The accused surrendered to the police.

He attacked her Tukni Lomga with a stone slab while she was returning home with her 30-year-old daughter from paddy field on Friday evening, the officer said.

The daughter who managed to flee and save her life was found later.

The police denied reports in a section of the press that she had gone missing following the incident.

Asked whether the incident was related to witchcraft, Officer-in-Charge of the police station Sudarshan Minz denied it and said personal enmity was the reason.

The accused had confessed to his crime after surrendering at Gudri pol

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