Tura, April 25: Shock and disbelief surrounds the village of Raja Apal in North Garo Hills where a young teenage girl was murdered while resisting a rape attempt by her step father who subsequently killed himself as police began closing in for his arrest.

This terrible tragedy unfolded in Raja Apal village of Bajengdoba on Friday.

The 17 year old girl, vibrant and full of excitement for life, was alone at home when her step father tried to commit rape.

On that fateful day, her mother had been asked by her husband to attend a funeral for a person from the village.

After the wife left, the lecherous step father began his sexual predator attempts which were repulsed by the young girl. Sources say that the accused stepfather had previously also made similar attempts.

The young girl is said to have fought off his advances multiple times which angered the stepfather who in a fit of anger picked up a lethal dao and attacked her, inflicting deep gashes and cuts to her forehead and leaving her senseless and profusely bleeding.

She sadly died from her wounds before help could reach her and the attacker fled to seek refuge in a friend’s house.

Shocked and angry family members rushed her to the Bajengdoba hospital but it was too late. They quickly filed a police complaint and a search was launched to arrest the murderer.

As word got around that police teams were already out to capture him, the guilty sexual predator panicked. Early Saturday morning, he went out of his friend’s house where he was taking shelter and hanged himself to death in the plantation.