A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death by a young man in Puliyankudi near Srimushnam in Cuddalore district on Tuesday. The victim was identified as V. Jeeva of Mel Puliyankudi.
Police said Jeeva, a class 12 student at the Vriddhachalam Government Higher Secondary School was waiting at the Puliyankudi bus stop to board a bus to school, when the suspect, identified as S. Anand, 24 of the same village picked up a quarrel with Jeeva and stabbed him.
Local residents immediately rushed Jeeva in an ambulance to the Vriddhachalam General Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.
