VAIKOM: Attacked during a dispute at an eatery. Police have arrested five people in the case of attacking and trying to kill youth. Agresh (29), Ranjith (34), Bino (25), Anandu Santhosh (26) and Anandu VG (25) were arrested by Vaikom police.

On the night of 1st October, the youths of Vaikom were attacked and tried to be killed near the Ullala Kaliswaram Temple. When the accused reached the eatery at Alathur side around 9 pm, they did not get a seat. Then there was a verbal argument between the accused and the youth. After this, around 11 pm, the accused attacked the youths with whom they had an argument with and beat them on the head with an aluminium stick.

They also took one of the men in a vehicle and left him on the road after beating him up. Vaikom police registered the case on the complaint of the youth who were the victims of the attack. The investigation team led by District Police Chief K Karthik arrested the accused from various places after a vigorous search. They were produced in court.