A family of seven, including three children, allegedly died by suicide in a parked car in Haryana’s Panchkula last night. The family was under heavy debt and likely made a suicide pact, early investigations suggest.
The car, parked outside a house, had raised suspicion among local residents. When, to their shock, they found bodies inside the car, they rushed them to the hospital and informed the police.
While six were inside the car, one man sitting outside collapsed after declaring he would die soon.
On Monday night, Praveen Mittal, 42, and family, residents of Dehradun, had attended a religious programme at Bageshwar Dham. Praveen Mittal, his elderly parents, wife and three young children – two girls and a boy – were on their way back home when late at night, the family allegedly consumed poison and died by suicide.
A resident of the neighbourhood was on a walk when he spotted the car with an Uttarakhand number plate parked behind his car. A man, believed to be Praveen Mittal, was sitting by the car, on the pavement.
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