Student beaten to death

PURNIA: A Class IX student was beaten to death by some men at Balutola locality under Kasba police station area in Bihar's Purnia district, police said.

Thinking him to be a thief, one Bhim Mahto and his men mercilessly beat up the student Roshan Kumar Kumar while he was returning home, the police said.

A badly injured Kumar was taken to the Sadar hospital where the attending doctors declared him brought dead, they said.

An investigation was on, the police said.