Quarrel over bursting crackers ends up in youth’s murder in Tiruchi district

TIRUCHI A quarrel over bursting crackers ended in the murder of a 20-year-old youth at Purathakudi village in Tiruchi district on Sunday (November 8, 2026) evening. The Samayapuram police have named C. Donald and J.

Edison as the accused in the murder of X. Chrisopher (20). Both the victim and the accused were from Purathakudi village.

Police sources said Christopher was bursting crackers along with his friends at Purathakudi on Sunday evening when Donald and Edison were passing through the street at that time. The two allegedly abused Christopher and his friends for bursting crackers in the middle of the road and asked them to burst it on the roadside, resulting in a quarrel between them. Two minor boys murdered at Samayapuram near Tiruchi Two minor boys murdered at Samayapuram near Tiruchi The two were murdered on the canal bank road at Samayapuram at around 11 p.m.