Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu), March 10 -- In a shocking incident, a three-member gang hacked a Class 11 student when he was travelling in a bus to the school at Kattiammalpuram near Srivaikuntam in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu on Monday.

Police said T Devendran (17), hailing from Ariyanayagipuram village, was travelling in the bus from his village to the government-aided higher secondary school at Tirunelveli, where he is studying, when the armed gang waylaid the bus at the Kattiammalpuram area this morning.

The gang pulled Devendran out of the bus and hacked him indiscriminately with sickles in full public view.

Even as the victim screamed for help, the bus passengers and passerby were afraid to intervene as the gang was possessing si...