Bodies of 5 family members found in car parked outside house

Suspicion of mass suicide

Pudukottai (Team Newsbuddy) : Sensation spread after 5 bodies were found in a car parked outside a house in Namanasamudram police station limits of the district. On Wednesday morning, five members of a family were found dead in a car parked outside a building near Namanasamudram on Tiruchi-Karaikudi National Highway. According to the police, all of them were residents of Salem in Tamil Nadu. The police team is investigating the matter. At present, all the bodies have been sent for post-mortem. It is being told that a person named Manigandan had taken a loan for business, which had become very high. Under this pressure, all the members of the family committed suicide by consuming poison.

The deceased have been identified as 50-year-old Manigandan, his wife Nithya (48), his mother Saroja (70), daughter Niharika (22) and son Dheeran (20). All these people were residents of State Bank Colony in Salem district. Locals noticed the car parked in front of a monastery at Ilankudipatti at 9 am and informed the police