A 35-year-old man killed his wife in front of their children using a hammer and a knife in Bokaro district of Jharkhand in the early hours of Sunday, police said.

Bokaro Thermal Police Station Officer-in-Charge Pinku Yadav told PTI that the husband, identified as Rupesh Yadav, had a heated argument with his wife, Jhalo Devi (30) and murdered her using a hammer and slit her throat using a knife in the room of their house in front of their three children.

''The incident took place at Naya Basti in Bermo block of Bokaro district at around 3 am. They had a tiff over some issues, which led to a heated argument, and later, Rupesh murdered his wife. Their three children—seven-year-old daughter Riddhi Rani, four-year-old son Piyush, and a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter—were sleeping in the sam

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