A woman and her five children were found dead in Karnataka’s Bhutanal Lake on the outskirts of Vijayapura district on Wednesday morning, police said.
Deputy superintendent of police, Nagaraj, said the woman’s husband, a 40-year-old man in Toravi’s Shanti Nagar, told the police that he had a bitter argument with his wife on the night of August 23 (Sunday).
The man told the police that his wife and children slept in the house, and he decided to sleep outside. But when he woke up at 5am on Monday, his wife and four children were missing from the house.
Police said he went to Vijayapura to check on his fifth child, a 12-year-old son studying at a residential school for children with hearing and speech disabilities, but was told by the school that his wife had taken their son with her.
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When he could not locate his wife and children in Toravi and Vijayapura, the man approached the rural police station on Monday and sought their help to trace them, Nagaraj said.
{{/usCountry}}When he could not locate his wife and children in Toravi and Vijayapura, the man approached the rural police station on Monday and sought their help to trace them, Nagaraj said.
{{/usCountry}}“According to preliminary information, after a dispute, his wife left home with her children. It has been confirmed that a woman and her five children are among the deceased. The exact cause is not yet clear,” said Nagaraj.
“The police have launched a massive search to identify the bodies and are examining missing persons complaints registered in the surrounding police stations. The real truth behind this series of deaths will come out only after the post-mortem and police investigation. A case has been registered under the jurisdiction of Adarsh Nagar police station,” said Nagaraj.
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