In Suramangalam, Salem,a man slit the throat of a woman who was in an illegitimate relationship with him, and also hanged himself. This horrible incident has created chaos and shock in the locality. The incident happened in an ice cream shop owned by a  person named Pandiarajan.

The woman who was killed, was Sithara(25), who had been working in the shop for more than 7 months. Sithara was a divorcee, who had been living with her daughter. It was later found that she was in an illegitimate relationship with Inamul Haq(54) for the past 4 years.

After their families came to know of this relationship, they were separated, and Sithara stopped talking with Inamul Haq. Yesterday,  Inamul Haq had been to the icecream shop where SIthara works, and as she refused to talk to him, slit her throat with a knife he had kept hidden. Following this, Inamul also hanged himself to death in the same ice cream shop premises.After public saw their dead bodies, police officers were intimated and they rushed to the spot and took the dead bodies.