Unable to cope with losses in the bear run of stock markets, a man killed his pregnant wife and then committed suicide in Mumbai, police said tonight.
The bodies of Parag Tanna and his wife Neha (both 34), who was seven to eight months pregnant, were found at their apartment in Iraniwadi area of suburban Kandivali, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone XI) Makrand Ranade said.
"Parag was found hanging using a nylon rope while his wife was lying dead on the floor," he said.
The police suspect that Parag first strangled his wife and then committed suicide.
This was from a few days ago
MUMBAI: In an apparent case of suicide triggered by the global financial crisis, a Mumbai-based stockbroker, his wife and their two children were found dead in their flat on Sunday afternoon, a police official said.
The victims are A.K. Nair, a 77-year-old sharebroker, his wife Shyamala, 65, daughter Suchitra, 43, and son Sudhir, 42, the official from the Kasturba Marg police station said.
The bodies were found from their flat in the upscale Raheja Complex in Borivli (East), a suburb in northwest Mumbai, the official said.
According to preliminary investigations, it appears to be a case of mass suicide on account of financial calamities that befell the family in view of the recent crises in the stock markets, he said.
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