Palanpur (Gujarat): A man murdered his wife before committing suicide by hanging himself at Ravi village in Banaskantha district in North Gujarat, the police said on Saturday.
According to a complaint filed by the deceased’s person’s son Bhavesh Bharathri, “I was working in the field on Friday when my father, for unknown reasons, attacked my mother Manjulaben. On reaching home, I found my mother lying in a blood pool. I rushed her to the hospital, where the doctor declared her dead. My wife told me that my father Shankarbhai Bharathri had attacked my mother with a sharp-edged weapon. After attacking her, he fled away.”
When Bhavesh was at the hospital, he received a call from the village sarpanch, informing him that his father had hanged himself from a tree near the village lake.
–IANS
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