Nellore: Mystery has shrouded the attack against a woman during broad daylight at busy Stonehouse-peta area on Monday.  

Some anonymous person slit the throat of the woman Y. Parameswari, 40, when she was alone at her home in Pappula Street around 12 noon. When her husband Sesha Rao came home for lunch he found her lying in a pool of blood.

He rushed her to the hospital and alerted the police. He is runs a grocery shop near his house. Locals had seen drivers of a transport company moving around in the street before the incident.

“Whoever attacked her has not touched any valuables. Moreover, a gold chain is intact on her neck. The scene of the crime indicates absence of any struggle. Going by her condition she should have run out of the house after the attack, but she didn't and she was waiting for her husband. Her condition is reported to be stable but she is yet to give any details about the attack,” Nellore town DSP P. Venkatnath Reddy said.