PATHANAMTHITTA: A 16-year-old student was hacked to death by classmates at Kodumon. The dead has been identified as Chandanapally St George School student Nikhil.

According to reports, tussle among students resulted in the crime. Police have taken into custody two students in connection with the incident. The arrested are the tenth standard students of the school.

After reportedly hacking Nikhil to death, the two students took his body to rubber plantation to bury it. It was at this instance the police caught them.

The accused told the police they threw stone at Nikhil and after he fell down, they hacked at his neck with an axe. It is said quarrel over a mobile phone had led to the crime.