KOLKATA: A 41-year-old homemaker killed her physically disabled teenage son and later hung herself to death, hours after attending the funeral of her husband — a Covid patient — at a village in Howrah on Monday evening.
The incident happened at Raghudevpur village under Rajapur police station, around 45km from Kolkata. Police said, according to relatives and neighbours, the woman seemed devastated after the death of her husband, Debnath Dey, who was admitted at a Howrah hospital on Saturday and died early on Monday. The Covid-positive report came a few hours after his death.
The woman had returned home in the afternoon. When the neighbours found the house dark till late evening, they knocked on the doors. When no one responded, they called cops, who broke open the door to find the two dead inside the firstfloor bedroom. While the woman, Anushree Dey, was found hanging from the ceiling fan, her 19-year-old son, Pritam, was found hanging from the railing of a window.
“The woman had reportedly told relatives at the hospital that after her husband’s death that she had no option but to end her own life and that of her son’s ,” said a senior officer.
The incident happened at Raghudevpur village under Rajapur police station, around 45km from Kolkata. Police said, according to relatives and neighbours, the woman seemed devastated after the death of her husband, Debnath Dey, who was admitted at a Howrah hospital on Saturday and died early on Monday. The Covid-positive report came a few hours after his death.
The woman had returned home in the afternoon. When the neighbours found the house dark till late evening, they knocked on the doors. When no one responded, they called cops, who broke open the door to find the two dead inside the firstfloor bedroom. While the woman, Anushree Dey, was found hanging from the ceiling fan, her 19-year-old son, Pritam, was found hanging from the railing of a window.
“The woman had reportedly told relatives at the hospital that after her husband’s death that she had no option but to end her own life and that of her son’s ,” said a senior officer.
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