India, Dec. 22 -- In a chilling reminder of rising brutality, an elderly woman was hacked to death while trying to foil a loot bid at her home in Dharamgarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district here on Sunday.

The woman, identified as Suchitra Khuntia, was a retired mid-level health provider residing in Gadiajor village. She had set up her own home in the village and was living alone since last seven to eight years.

As per reports, Suchitra was asleep when a few miscreants broke into her house in a suspected robbery attempt. When she heard noise and woke up, she saw the intruders trying to ransack her place and tried to resist them. However, the effort to stop the theft took a fatal turn when one of the assailants attacked and hacked her wit...