Man kills son, hangs himself; wife ends life elsewhere

Bangalore,February 17: Suspecting his wife’s fidelity, a 28-year-old man first killed his five-year-old son by pushing his face into a bucket full of water and then hanged himself at home here today, police said.

The wife who had gone to her relative’s place, fed up up with the daily quarrels, consumed poison there and subsequently died in a hospital, police said.

Santhosh Kumar, who was working in an automobile showroom for the past three years, left a suicide note which said his wife’s alleged illicit relationship with another man had pained him to a great extent resulting in him taking the extreme step, police said.

–Agencies