Tearful farewell to Sydney victim

Mangaluru: The mortal remains of Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, the IT consultant who was stabbed to death in Sydney on March 7, was consigned to flames at her birth place in Dakshina Kannada district's Amtoor village, about 30 km from Mangaluru, on Sunday. The funeral pyre was lit by her husband Arun Kumar and younger brother Shivaprasad and was witnessed by her father Mahabala Shetty, brothers, kin, villagers and friends among others. The body, which had arrived in Bengaluru from Sydney, was kept for public viewing at Prabha's uncle's house in west Bengaluru on Sunday morning.