Amethi (UP), February 15 A 55-year-old farmer was allegedly killed with a sharp-edged weapon while protecting his field here, police said on Sunday.
Shivkumar, a resident of Poore Ghisai village under the Mohanganj police station area, had stayed overnight in his field on Saturday to protect his crops from Nilgai and stray animals, they said.
According to police, Shivkumar left for the field around 8 pm after dinner. On Sunday morning at around 6.30 am, some villagers called out to him but received no response. They then went inside the hut on the farm and found him lying in a pool of blood.
Mohanganj SHO Rakesh Singh confirmed the incident, saying that Shivkumar was murdered by being hit on the head with a sharp-edged axe.
The body of the deceased has been sent for post-mortem examination, he added.