Double death mystery near Kumbh site shocks Mandla

Jabalpur: Two suspicious deaths within 24 hours have sown panic in Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district, with bodies found at a playground and near the Narmada river's Kumbh site.A 35-year-old daily wage laborer, Prabhu Maravi from Keharpur village, was discovered soaked in blood at a Maharajpur playground on Monday, bearing deep head and neck wounds suggestive of murder. His slippers lay nearby; police have sent the body for postmortem and are scanning local CCTV footage.Not far away, near Kotwali police limits by the Kumbh site, a youth was found hanging from a tree, his body roughly five to six days old, with a young woman's mutilated corpse in bushes 100 meters away. Both had been missing since March 24; prior complaints included a missing person report for him and an abduction case for her at Maharajpur station. The pair knew each other, officials said.SP Rajat Saklecha and SDOP Piyush Mishra inspected both spots. Police are pursuing angles including a possible relationship or murder, awaiting postmortem reports to pinpoint cause and timing.