Coimbatore: A 46-year-old woman ended her life by jumping off the seventh floor of a private hospital at Kovilpalayam here on Tuesday afternoon after her husband succumbed to the injuries, which he had sustained in a road accident, at the hospital.
The Kovilpalayam police said, Sekaran, 50 of Kalingarayanpalayam near Bhavani in Erode district, was knocked down from his two-wheeler by an unidentified vehicle while he was returning home after offering prayers at Bannariamman temple near Sathyamangalam around 9am on Tuesday.
“Immediately, he was taken to the private hospital at Kovilpalayam in Coimbatore in an ambulance. When alerted, his wife Nagarathinam and other family members reached the hospital. Sekaran succumbed to his severe head injuries in the afternoon. When his wife heard the news, she ran to the seventh floor of the hospital and jumped to death,” a police officer said.
Both the dead bodies were subsequently sent to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital for postmortem, he said.