LUCKNOW, Sept. 18 -- In a gruesome incident, a 24-year-old man cut off the hands of his wife and his mother during a domestic quarrel in a village under the Gudamba police station limits in Lucknow on Wednesday evening, police said. The wife, who was eight months' pregnant, died following the attack while the condition of the mother was critical, the Gudamba police said.

Station house officer, Gudamba, Prabhatesh Kr Srivastava said, "The accused, identified as Ankur of Dasouli village under Gudamba police station limits, attacked his wife Neelam, 23, and 56-year-old mother Phool Kumari with a baanka (a sharp weapon) around 5pm following a heated argument."

According to police, both the women collapsed to the ground bleeding profusely. N...