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Elderly couple found dead
An elderly couple were found dead in a local forest of Mathagadhi Rural Municipality-5 in Palpa, on Sunday.bookmark
Madhab Aryal
Published at : November 27, 2018
Updated at : November 27, 2018 09:48
Palpa
An elderly couple were found dead in a local forest of Mathagadhi Rural Municipality-5 in Palpa, on Sunday.
According to the District Police Office, Purna Bahadur Saru, 76, was found hanging from a tree while body of his wife Harisara, 66, was recovered under the tree. Preliminary police investigation showed that Purna Bahadur killed self after he found his wife, who had gone missing since Saturday evening, hanging.
“It seems that Purna Bahadur first cut a shawl that his wife used to commit suicide and he later killed self by using the same shawl,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police Binod Ghimire, adding that the reason for the double suicide incidents is not immediately known.
The bodies were brought to Tansen, the district headquarters, for postmortem on Monday. The incident site is about 50km south-east from Tansen.
It is learnt that the couple had minor dispute. The couple, their daughter-in-law and granddaughter had gone to their paddy field near their settlement for work on Saturday. “All the family members worked in the field and returned home in the evening. But the grandmother (Harisara), who came with me halfway through, did not come home,” said the couple’s 15-year-old granddaughter Kalpana.
According to the family members, Purna Bahadur had gone out of the home on Sunday morning to search his missing wife. The couple’s only son Dil Bahadur, 33, died of tuberculosis among other ailments just a month ago.
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