- By Nidhi Giri
- Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:58 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Delhi: A father and his five disabled daughters were found dead inside their apartment in southwest Delhi’s Rangpuri Village, police said Saturday. Police suspect that all five of them allegedly died by suicide after they consumed a poisonous substance. As per the police, the neighbours sensed foul smell emanating from the house and call reported it to the police on Friday morning.
"We broke open the door. The father's body was found in the living room. When we went inside, we found the bodies of his four daughters,” a senior police officer said, as quoted by an HT report.
Police suspect the father fed his daughters poison. They were aged between 8 to 18. Locals informed the police that the mother (of the girls) died due to cancer a few years back. The father worked as a carpenter.
Police said no suicide note was found from the spot. The neighbours told the police that the father alone took care of all his daughters.
A crime team and forensic team were called to the spot. Police said they seized samples of food from the rooms and wrappers of a medicine. The family lived on the fourth floor of the building in Rangpuri for eight years. Police said the bodies were sent for an autopsy to ascertain the reason behind the deaths.
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