Robbers Chop Off 100-Year-Old Woman's Leg While Stealing Her Jewelry

Thieves in the Indian state of Rajasthan attacked a 100-year-old woman over the weekend to steal jewelry, according to reports.

The elderly victim was found outside her home in the city of Jaipur Sunday, Indian news channel NDTV reported, citing the woman's daughter, Ganga Devi.

"There were injury marks on her neck and her leg was chopped off," Devi was quoted as saying by the outlet.

A group of men had allegedly chopped off the victim's leg to steal silver jewelry.

The family of the victim learned of the incident through their landlord.

"It was during the early hours when our landlord told me that my grandmother was lying outside in a critical condition. I told my mother about the incident and she told me to inform my relatives about it," the woman's granddaughter said.

The victim, who faced difficulties in doing daily chores, has been gravely injured, according to the report.

Further investigation is underway.

Police have received a report regarding a jewelry robbery and a woman whose legs were chopped off, but it was unclear if this referred to the Jaipur case.

In a similar story, a group of thieves in California attacked and robbed an elderly Asian American man inside a laundromat.

The suspected assailants, identified as Calvin Berschell, Jason Orozco and Nolowde Beshears, assaulted the 67-year-old victim on the 1200 block of Mason Street in San Francisco at around 10 p.m. on Feb. 23 last year.

All three, aged 19 at the time of the incident, kicked the man during the attack, surveillance footage showed.

They also dragged the victim off his chair and forced him onto the ground before going through his pockets for valuables.

The group ended up taking several hundred dollars.

Meanwhile, the elderly man was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators later detained the suspects, all of whom were from Antioch, after serving warrants on two addresses in the area.

Police were able to seize several firearms at the sites of the arrests.

Berschell, Orozco and Beshears were charged with burglary, robbery, elder abuse, fraudulent use of a credit card and assault likely to produce great bodily harm.

In addition to the laundromat assault, the three were also wanted for multiple car burglaries in Antioch.