India, Sept. 16 -- LUCKNOW Residents of Krishna Nagar woke up to another grim discovery on Tuesday, a day after a killing was reported in the same area. The back-to-back murders sent shockwaves through the neighbourhood, leaving residents gripped by fear and raising questions over the safety of the locality. However, police said that both the cases were not linked to each other.

Both the bodies were found within about 600 metres of each other within 24 hours, and close to a mall bringing renewed focus on night-time policing on a stretch that residents said remains active late into the night but sees little visible patrolling. FIRs under Section 103(1) of BNS were lodged in both cases.

The second body, that of a 32-year-old woman identif...