NEW DELHI: A former army officer beat six people to death with an iron rod Tuesday in a street killing spree that sparked panic in an Indian city, police said. Naresh Dhankar, 45, began his two hour murder rampage in a hospital in Palwal, in Haryana state, then walked outside picking victims at random, police said. His first killing of an woman waiting for a relative in the hospital was caught on security cameras. As police took the body of the woman to the morgue word came through of the other killings and a citywide alert was ordered. Three of the dead were night watchmen and one was a beggar who had been sleeping in the street in the city about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of New Delhi, police officials said.