Man dies of shock after abducted daughter's death

Hyderabad: The father of the nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed in Vijayawada today died of shock and heart attack, an incident that has raised public outcry across Andhra Pradesh.

P Prabhakar, who suffered a cardiac arrest last night after hearing the news about the death of his daughter Vyshnavi, died this morning at the private hospital where he was admitted, hospital sources said.

Abducted daughter of Andhra businessman found murdered

Prabhakar, a prominent liquor businessman in the city, had been unconscious since his admission in the hospital and was on ventilator support, expired this morning.

Vyshnavi was abducted on January 30 while she was going to school along with her brother in a car. The kidnappers killed the car driver, who tried to resist them, while the girl's brother managed to escape safely.

The burnt body of Vyshnavi was found in a boiler inside a factory at Autonagar in Guntur yesterday.

Doctors and forensic experts at Guntur said the available body parts of the girl would be sent for examination.

The kidnap and killing of the girl and the death of her father has triggered a public outcry with citizens of Vijayawada and civil society organisations demanding a stringent punishment to the killers of the girl.

A pall of gloom descended at Vyshnavi's school and their residence at Ayodhya Nagar in Vijayawada as number of friends and employees gathered.

"How can the kidnappers kill an innocent child," asked people in the city.