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Police release CCTV footage of slain Indian woman in Sydney
Sydney, March 9
Police on Monday released CCTV
footage of the Indian IT consultant minutes before she was stabbed to
death in a park on Saturday, just metres away from her home in Sydney's
Westmead suburb, a media report said.
The footage show Prabha
Arun Kumar, 41, on phone on a well-lit concourse near Parramatta railway
station before she took a shortcut through a nearby dimly-lit park
where she was attacked and killed, The Sydney Morning Herald reported,
adding that police could not find anyone following her or acting
suspiciously nearby.
"We are at a loss at this point in time,"
Detective Superintendent Michael Willing was quoted as saying. He,
however, added that there was no reason to suggest it was a race-related
attack.
Police said they released CCTV footage of Prabha in the
hope that it would jog the memory of anyone who saw her on Saturday
night before she was murdered. An employee of the Bengaluru-based tech
firm MindTree, she was returning home after finishing a double shift.
Officers also spent the day asking residents of Westmead if they had ever seen suspicious activity in the park.
Meanwhile,
the victim's husband G. Arun Kumar arrived in Sydney from Bengaluru on
Monday morning and was assisting police in their investigation.
She was on the phone with her husband Arun Kumar, who lives in Bengaluru with their 10-year-old daughter, when she was stabbed.
Chillingly,
the husband heard her tell him that a suspicious-looking man was
following her before she started pleading with her attacker not to harm
her. "I think I've been stabbed", she told her husband as she collapsed
in a pool of blood. The phone line then went dead. "It was a terrible
call to receive," Willing said.