Class 10 student, trying to stop assault near school in Karnataka, beaten to death
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According to investigators, the 16-year-old victim stepped in to pacify the situation, but the assailants turned on him and struck him repeatedly, including blows to the chest.
A class 10 student was beaten to death after he tried to intervene in an assault between a group of locals outside a government school in Karnataka's Shivamogga district, police said on Tuesday.
The 16-year-old had just finished a special class and was leaving the campus when he noticed an argument escalating into a physical attack on another boy known to him.
According to investigators, he stepped in to pacify the situation, but the assailants turned on him and struck him repeatedly, including blows to the chest.
He collapsed at the scene and was declared dead after being rushed to hospital.
The injured men he had tried to help is undergoing treatment, police said.
Superintendent of Police Nikhil said all those involved were minors from the same locality who had studied in the same nearby school. “They were known to each other. The victim intervened when a quarrel escalated, and he was assaulted. By the time he was taken to hospital, he had died,” the SP said.
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