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Quadruple hanging.
A five-member family consisting of a couple and their three children lived in a hut adjacent to the farm, wherethey used to work to earn their living. The couple was illiterate and belonged to a low socio-economic level. On the day of the incident, the father, mother and twochildren, aged 35, 32, 8 and 5 years respectively, were found completely suspended side by side from an ironpipe on the roof of their hut.
Police investigation revealed that the earnings of the parents, who worked as farmers,were not sufficient to meet their daily expenses. Their inability to repay their debts and pending dues possibly prompted them to take such an extreme step. Death scene investigations did not find anything suggestive of the involvement of external perpetrators, and the autopsy observations confirmed the cause of death as hanging in this rare setting of filicide-suicide.
A five-member family consisting of a couple and their three children lived in a hut adjacent to the farm, wherethey used to work to earn their living. The couple was illiterate and belonged to a low socio-economic level. On the day of the incident, the father, mother and twochildren, aged 35, 32, 8 and 5 years respectively, were found completely suspended side by side from an ironpipe on the roof of their hut.
Police investigation revealed that the earnings of the parents, who worked as farmers,were not sufficient to meet their daily expenses. Their inability to repay their debts and pending dues possibly prompted them to take such an extreme step. Death scene investigations did not find anything suggestive of the involvement of external perpetrators, and the autopsy observations confirmed the cause of death as hanging in this rare setting of filicide-suicide.
