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Woman strangles child, ends life

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: A 30-year-old woman hanged herself after allegedly strangling her two-year-old son at Kanakanapalya in Jayanagar 2nd Block on Saturday.

According to the police, Swetha, an MBA, and her son Kishan came to her parents’ house in Jayanagar eight days ago. On Friday, she had dinner with her parents and went to sleep around 9.30 p.m. On Saturday morning, Swetha’s mother Sunita knocked on the door but did not get any response. She waited for some time and tried again at 9.30 a.m., but again there was no response. An anxious Ms. Sunita then called her husband Prakash, a doctor, who broke open the door. The parents found their daughter hanging from the ceiling fan and their grandson dead on the cot.

In separate statements to the Siddapura police and also the jurisdictional tahsildar, Dr. Prakash said they were mystified by Swetha’s suicide as she did not have any problem with her husband Mahesh, an accountant with a multinational software firm. They got married three years ago and were staying in Domlur. No suicide note was found, the police said.

Student ends life

An 18-year-old boy, who failed in the second year pre-university examination, committed suicide by hanging himself at his house at Ejipura in Viveknagar police limits on Friday. The student has been identified as Sagar, son of Sambhujan, an employee of a Defence establishment.

The police said that Sagarhanged himself when his parents were not at home. Sagar took the extreme step after he got to know that he had failed.

Dies in wall collapse

A 53-year-old teacher of a private college died following a wall collapse near Uma theatre in Kempe Gowda Nagar police station limits on Saturday.

The police said the victim Padmavati was watching the demolition work of her neighbour’s house. She came under the wall that suddenly collapsed on her.

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