Jodhpur, August 14: A 50-year-old American woman was brutally killed in a resort near Jodhpur district of Rajasthan on Thursday night.
The resort staff in Osian discovered the body of woman tourist identified Cindy Iannarelli inside the tented accommodation where she was staying.
The police said that she was staying with a 15-year-old boy Joncarlo claiming to be her biological son. Both had landed in Jodhpur from Mumbai on Aug 11. The boy, considered to be a prime suspect was detained while trying to board a flight from Jodhpur to Delhi.
Superintendent of police, Jodhpur rural G.L.Sharma told media it seems that the throat of the woman has been slit by a sharp object and she must have been murdered late in the night.
Sharma said that we have already informed American Embassy about this and have started to interrogate the boy who was detained while he was trying to board a morning flight to Delhi.
A police official from Osian said that the resort staff informed us about the murder on Friday morning and also informed that her son left early in the morning.
He said that after putting check posts at major roads, bus stand, railway station and the airport we finally nabbed him at the airport adding that the teenager is a prime suspect in the case.
The actual cause of the death and the time of would only be known after a postmortem is conducted
—Agencies