Teenage boy stabbed to death near Madurai Meenakshi Temple
A 17-year-old boy named A. Gubendran was fatally stabbed in Madurai near the Meenakshi Temple. The attack is believed to be linked to a previous altercation over a banana purchase. Police have arrested five suspects and are searching for three more in connection with the murder.
- ▪A. Gubendran was stabbed multiple times in the early hours of Monday.
- ▪The incident occurred at the Madurai Corporation’s shopping complex parking lot.
- ▪Five suspects have been arrested, including M. Muthumani, who is believed to have been involved in a prior dispute with Gubendran.
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A 17-year-old boy, A. Gubendran, was stabbed to death in the early hours of Monday (May 25, 2026) at the Madurai Corporation’s shopping complex in the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple parking lot.A scuffle with a person identified as M. Muthumani, 28, over buying bananas at his shop on Dhalavai Street on April 26 is said to have led to the murder.The police said that Gubendran was sleeping in the lobby on the first floor of the shopping complex when an armed gang stabbed him multiple times around 1.30 a.m. They then dragged him down to the ground floor and stabbed him repeatedly again. After leaving him dead in a pool of blood, the gang fled the scene.
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