India, April 4 -- New Delhi

A 24-year-old man, a suspected stalker, stabbed a girl aged around 16-17 years multiple times, leaving her critically injured, and then allegedly committed suicide by setting off an LPG cylinder blast in Shahdara on Friday evening, police said. The girl is critically injured and is undergoing treatment, they said.

Police said the suspect and the victim were neighbours living in Old Seemapuri and that the man had been harassing her for some time, as per a preliminary investigation.

A senior police officer, who did not wish to be named, said, "Since both of them can't be reached for a statement at the moment, we spoke to families and neighbours and found they were friends. The families also knew each other. As...