Last Wednesday Pastor Vinod Kumar was murdered by Sonu Kashyap, a Hindu, in Sangoi village, located in the Karnal District. Morning Star News reports that Kashyap ambushed Pastor Kumar at about 8 p.m. and beat him to death with a wooden roof truss.

After leading online worship, Pastor Kumar received a call from Kashyap’s brother to visit a sick villager. As Pastor Kumar was leaving this villager’s home, Kashyap attacked Pastor Kumar and hit him on the head multiple times with the roof truss.

“He attacked Vinod unaware from behind,” Sunita Kumar, Pastor Kumar’s wife, told Morning Star News. “He hit him hard on his head three times even after he fell from the motorbike.”

Local villagers captured Kashyap and beat him until police arrived on the scene. Kashyap was taken into custody and Pastor Kumar was taken to a nearby hospital. At the hospital, doctors declared him dead on arrival.

“Kashyap had visited our home to get himself prayed for,” Sunita told Morning Star News. “I do not know what came upon him that he took such a drastic step of killing Vinod so brutally.”

Source: persecution.org