Pathanamthitta : A 16-year-old student was hacked to death by classmates at Kodumon. The dead has been identified as Chandanapally St George School student Nikhil.

According to reports, tussle among students resulted in the crime. Police have taken into custody two students in connection with the incident. The arrested are the tenth standard students of the school.

After reportedly hacking Nikhil to death, they immediately brought an axe from a closed house nearby and slit his neck. After digging a pit in a rubber plantation, the body was buried using sand brought from two distant locations. The people in the neighbourhood grew suspicious after seeing them carry sand. The neighbours rushed to the spot and located the body, after which they informed the police. It was at this instance the police caught them.

The accused told the police they threw stone at Nikhil and after he fell down, they hacked at his neck with an axe. It is said quarrel over a mobile phone had led to the crime.