HYDERABAD: A mentally ill man held his mother and two children hostage in Hyderabad on Saturday.
The accused Dr Ibrahim has locked himself along with his mother and two children inside a house since yesterday, police said. His wife has left him, police added.
The man also resorted to aerial firing at residents in the neighbourhood leaving at least one person injured.
The neighbours said that the doctor would get irritated when children played outside his house. On Friday he opened fire at them leaving the neighbourhood under a spell of deep fear.
