Student stabbed to death for resisting robbery attempt by gang in Tamil Nadu

A 20-year old engineering student was stabbed to death by a three-member gang for resisting their attempt to rob him of his mobile phone near Sulur on the outskirts, police said on Sunday.

Tami Selvan, a third-year mechanical engineering student was returning home when three men on two bikes approached him from behind and tried to snatch his mobile phone, at K M Patty on Saturday, they said.

When the victim resisted and raised an alarm, one of the gang members stabbed him on the chest with a knife and fled the scene, they added. The profusely bleeding student rushed to his house and his father took him to a nearby private hospital, where he was declared brought dead. A search is on for the suspects, they said.