An eight-year-old boy was beaten to death during a fight over collecting berries in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Friday, police said.
A group of children were collecting berries under a tree when a fight broke out between two of them. The accused, a 23-year-old man, intervened and thrashed one of them to death, Inspector Ramashish Paswan of Pandu police station said.
A search was underway for the accused who went missing following the incident, he said, adding that a case was also lodged.
Police said the body of the boy was sent for post-mortem examination to the Medinirai Medical College and Hospital.
