Financial woes drive three of Indian family to suicide in Dubai

Three members of an Indian family allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves in their apartment here due to financial trouble, in what appeared to be a family pact, but the father survived the attempt.

The three—a 38-year-old woman, her 22-year-old son from an earlier marriage and her 20-year-old sister died in their house in Karama area in an apparent suicide pact on Wednesday. But her husband who also tried to hang himself, escaped with minor injuries, the Khaleej Times reported.

Financial problems were cited as the reason for the mass suicide, in a note left behind in the house, Brigadier Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation of Dubai Police said.

Police rushed to the building opposite Lulu Supermarket at Karama in Dubai where they found the three members of the family dead and the man of the house still breathing. He was rushed to the hospital. The man survived the attempt to kill himself as his rope came loose and later himself alerted the police.

The bodies have been sent to the General Department of Forensic Medicine, the paper said.The police found a letter which said the family members were ending their lives out of despair due to financial
problems.

Police said that forensic experts had collected evidence and the preliminary evidence points to a suicide pact. Later, a senior Dubai Police official also ruled out any criminal intent behind the collective suicide, saying it was a pact motivated by the husband.

The husband claimed to the police that following the failed attempt he panicked and immediately reported the matter to them. By that time, all the three members of his family were dead.