Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Mar 31: In a shocking incident reported from Auckland, New Zealand, a couple of Mangalurean origin was stabbed to death.

The victims of this incident were Elisabeth Bangera, who was a resident of Balmatta in the city, and her husband, Herman Bangera. Their engineering graduate son, Sheal, was also found stabbed and was taken to hospital with critical injuries. A fourth person who is believed to be a passer-by who tried to intervene was taken to hospital with superficial injuries.

Elisa's father, Edward Ammanna, used to serve the Sunday school at Shanthi Cathedral, Balmatta, as a teacher. He was a respected senior at Mercara HIill Church. Herman was the administrator of a school in Mumbai. Elisa, who was employed in Godrej company at Mumbai, had married Herman, after which the couple settled down in Goa. For providing their son better and higher quality education, the couple had left for New Zealand in 2007. Herman had shared the photo of his son having secured his degree certificate in 2014 in his Facebook account recently.

It is said that the couple's son, in the recent days, had begun to express his intention to stay away from his parents and was behaving as per his own whims. It is said that on this issue, there was some friction between the parents and their son.