Murder in Nuzvid… (Oct. 27)

Now the title may be a little bit startling but you may have also noticed that this entry is talking about an event that occurred while we were in Narsapur so don’t worry too much all our female family members out there! Also keep in mind I’m telling this as it was told to me.

It seems that the interesting things happen while we’re gone and this is one of those times. Thursday evening a man stumbled into the ER with his throat cut from ear to ear. Of course blood was everywhere as well as a blood trail following him from the door so the ER went to work on him right away.

Now lets rewind a little bit and talk about how this happened. The man who was murdered was a local politician who was known to be quite corrupt. He had a reputation for telling people he would get them a good job since he knew everyone and was very important but only if they paid him 100,000 rupees. Now this had happened several times between this corrupt dude and a friend of his and the friend had had enough. The corrupt politician and his friend were riding on the corrupt politician’s motorcycle down a street that borders the hospital compound when the friend pulled out a sickle and sliced open the throat of the politician. This happened no more than 150 feet from the main hospital gate (and no more than 100 ft from our room) and since the politician wasn’t dead he kept his chin down and walked himself into the ER.

When he reached the ER he couldn’t talk since his throat was slit but he was able to write down the name and address of the man who had attacked him. This was fortunate for the police because they had the victim right there telling them who did it. Since one, and maybe both of his jugulars had been severed there wasn’t much the doctors and hospital staff could do. He died within 15 minutes of reaching the hospital.

We did see pictures of the guy after he had died and been cleaned up a bit and even then it was not pretty… The cut was deep enough to go all the way through his trachea and was probably 8 to 10 inches long and was gaping open 6 inches wide. There really was no way to save him but he did provide valuable information so the police could catch the killer.

While this story is definitely not a happy story it certainly shows the shocking things that can happen unexpectedly here in India. This really was an isolated incident and was caused by special circumstances but it is shocking nonetheless.

Just another day in India for most, but we should all pray for the family of the corrupt politician, he and his family need Jesus too