NANDED: A woman allegedly killed herself by jumping into a lake following her husband's death due to Covid-19 in Maharashtra's Nanded district, police said on Thursday.
The woman's three-year-old son also followed her into Sunegaon lake in Loha and drowned on Wednesday night, an official said.
According to the police, the 40-year-old man, a labourer from Telangana, had come to Loha located 40 km from Nanded in search of work and had gotten infected. The man died in a government hospital on April 13. The couple had three children, and one of them, the three-year-old boy, followed his mother into the lake, officials said. The matter came to light on Thursday morning.