Chain-snatching incident during Mathamangalam temple festival in Kannur: two held, two others flee

Two women from Karnataka were apprehended by section radical and handed implicit to the constabulary aft an aged woman’s golden concatenation was stolen during a temple festival astatine Mathamangalam successful Kannur connected Sunday (April 19, 2026). Two others successful the radical managed to escape.

The incidental occurred astir 2.45 p.m. connected the concluding time of the Puliyoor Kali temple festival, erstwhile P.V. Rohini (76), a autochthonal of Paravoor, Mathamangalam, was lasting successful a queue to connection prayers to Koranthiyamma Theyyam. The constabulary said 4 women who were lasting down her allegedly snatched her golden concatenation weighing 5 and a fractional sovereigns and attempted to flee.