Kurnool: Four members of a family committed suicide by consuming pesticide at Vaddegere locality here on Wednesday in Andhra Pradesh.
Police said that the deceased Prathap (42), his wife Hemalatha (36), his son Jayanth (17) and daughter Rishita (14) were found dead in their house today. The neighbours noticed the incident and informed the police who broke open the door and found all four members lying dead.
The police recovered a suicide note in the house. The police suspected that the death of close relatives of the deceased due to Coronavirus recently deeply upset them which might have forced them to take the extreme step. The police registered a case and shifted the bodies to the government general hospital for postmortem.