A 20-year old engineering student was stabbed to death by a three-member gang for resisting their attempt to rob him of his mobile phone near Sulur on the outskirts, police said on Sunday.
Tami Selvan, a third year mechanical engineering student was returning home when three men on two bikes approached him from behind and tried to snatch his mobile phone, at K M Patty on Saturday, they said.
When the victim resisted and raised an alarm, one of the gang members stabbed him on the chest with a knife and fled the scene, they added.
The profusely bleeding student rushed to his house and his father took him to a nearby private hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
A search is on for the suspects, they said.
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