Khammam: A TRS leader, Tammineni Krishnaiah was murdered brutally in broad daylight at Teldarupalli village of Khammam Rural Mandal in the district on Sunday causing sending the police into a tizzy and creating tension in the village. The 55-year-old leader of Teldarupalli was hacked to death minutes after he hoisted the national flag at Ponnekal Rythu Vedika in the Mandal. He was the director of Tekulapalli PACS and joined TRS from CPM sometime back.
The assailants waylaid at Maddulapalli double bedroom houses near Teldarupalli village, attacked him with sickles, axes, and knives, and left him dead in a pool of blood by the roadside. The attackers cut off his wrists of Krishnaiah and were said to have taken them with them as the dead body was missing both wrists.