Elderly woman assaulted by robbers shifted to ICU
Bhubaneswar: The 70-year-old woman who was assaulted by two robbers inside her house in IRC Village area under Nayapalli police limits on Sunday has been admitted in the ICU of a private hospital here as her condition worsened on Monday.
Two unidentified criminals had barged into her house in the N-4 area when she was alone at home, on the pretext of taking her house on rent. They fled after robbing her and attacking her with a knife. Among the woman’s injuries were broken teeth, fractures on fingers of both hands, and stab wounds on her face.
“My wife is serious. The goons did not consider her advanced age and attacked her brutally. She had to get multiple stitches on her face. Her hands have been injured. Both ears were bleeding as the robbers pulled off her earrings. Doctors will keep her in the ICU for 72 hours,” said her husband, Chakrapani Mishra (75).
Mishra had gone out to buy vegetables when the two men entered his house at around 10 am on Sunday and attacked his wife.
The elderly couple live on their own in their two-storey building in the posh Nayapalli area. While they live on the first floor, the ground floor is rented out to a family. The couple’s son lives in the US and the daughter in London.
Police said their investigation into the case was under way. “Two teams were formed on Sunday to crack the Nayapalli case, as well as the snatchings in Kharavel Nagar,” deputy commissioner of police Uma Shankar Dash said.