Four of family commit suicide in Andhra Pradesh

Vijayawada: Depressed due to financial problems, four members of a family allegedly committed suicide here by consuming poison.

Imitation jewellery businessman Pinnati Ramu (35), a resident of Gulabithota area here, had been facing problems in his enterprise and was into deep financial crisis, police said.

Owing to this, Ramu and his wife Bhanu (25) ended their lives after giving poison to their children, son Yashwant (6) and daughter (4) – on Saturday, Manchavaram police said.

When their relatives did not get any response after knocking several times at their door, they broke it open and found the four lying dead.

Assistant Commissioner of Police A Lavanya along with other police officials visited the spot and sent the bodies for postmortem to a government hospital.