Man kills himself after wiping out family in UP

Muzaffarnagar, July 04: In a gruesome incident in Shamli area of the district a local resident Papendra committed suicide after killing his wife and two minor children this morning .

Papendra, resident of village Butrani, took the extreme step as he suspected his wife has having illicit relations with a youth of the village.

He cut the throat of wife Pinki(30) and one three-year-old son while starngulated nine-month-old son. Thereafter he shot himself dead, Superintendent of Police (rural) Raju Babu Singh told UNI.

The bodies had been sent for postmortem, he said.

—Agencies