TRICHY: A 45-year-old

allegedly beat her husband to

death

with a steel pipe at a village near Vaiyapatti on the outskirts of Trichy on Friday. The woman, Panchavarnam, 45, fled after the incident.

The victim was identified as Murugesan, 48, of Kalpatti Chathiram. The couple had three sons and a nine-year-old daughter.

It all started when Murugesan started beating up his daughter. His wife and sons tried to stop him, but he continued to beat her. To save her daughter, Pancharvarnam took a pipe from the kitchen and hit him on the back of his head.

He collapsed on the floor and started to bleeding heavily. Panchavarnam and her sons rushed him to a government hospital in

. However, he failed to respond to the treatment and died.