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Pune, Oct 12 (PTI) A 14-year-old girl was brutally stabbed to death by three persons, two of them minors, on a street in Pune city of Maharashtra on Tuesday evening when she was on her way to kabaddi practice, police said.
Prima facie, a "one-sided" love affair by a distant relative of the girl, a class 8 student, led to the murder, an official said, adding two of the accused who are minors were apprehended hours after the incident.
"The girl was on her way to kabaddi practice at Yash Lawns in the Bibewadi area around 5.45 pm.
When she was standing with her friends near the lawns, the three accused, one of them a 22-year-old man, came on a motorcycle.
While one remained on the motorbike, the other two, including the 22-year-old, attacked her with sharp weapons.
"They stabbed her multiple times in the throat and other parts of the body.