India, Aug. 24 -- A 27-year-old man allegedly killed his pregnant wife in Hyderabad, cutting her body into pieces at their home in Telangana's Medipally, in the Hyderabad metropolitan area, on Saturday.

Police said the man, who works as a cab driver with a ride-hailing company, "strangled and smothered" his wife. He used a blade to sever her head, hands, and legs, and disposed of some of the body parts in the Musi river, an officer said.

He packed the body parts separately in small plastic bags and went to the river three times to throw those away, police. Efforts were on to find the parts.

The husband retained the headless and legless torso of the woman in his room, DCP (Malkajgiri zone) PV Padmaja told reporters. The dismembered body...