(LUCKNOW, India) — Police are investigating a mysterious raft of attacks in which Indian women say they’re waking up to find someone has chopped off their hair and left it neatly on their pillows. A ...

Over the past two months, at least 200 women in Indian-administered Kashmir have reported being attacked by masked assailants who cut off their braids. According to many of the victims’ accounts, the ...

SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Shaqeela Sajad was sweeping the front porch last week when a masked man dressed in black forced a handkerchief over her nose and attacked her. “When I opened my eyes in the ...

AGRA CITY, India — A mysterious “braid-chopper” is cutting off women’s hair in Northern India, according to a Reuters report. In what is being called The Case of the Phantom Barber, over the past two ...

A spate of braid-cutting attacks on women near the India-Pakistan border has turned into a “major law and order problem” as locals turn on each other and the authorities. More than 50 women and girls ...

MELROSE - An 11-year-old girl says one of her braids was cut while she was cleaning up a project with her classmates at a Melrose elementary school. "I was just embarrassed that somebody cut my hair," ...