Daijiworld Media Network - Chikkamagaluru (SP)

Chikkamagaluru, Sep 7: In a tragic incident reported from Makkimane site, Sringeri in the district, three members of a single family hanged themselves together.

The deceased were Sharadamma (70), Veena (49) and Shravya (15). Veena worked as an Anganwadi teacher at Honnavalli. Sharada was her mother while Shravya was her daughter.

Veena's husband, Sudhakar Shetty, works as an areca nut plantation worker. He was on a visit to a nearby village for undertaking the work of spraying bordo solution to an areca nut plantation when his family members ended their lives. Sudhakar and Veena's only daughter, Shravya, was a tenth standard student of Holekoppa government high school.

After noticing that Veena did not come to the Anganwadi on Monday, Anganwadi assistant, Poornima, called her number but failed to get any response. She then went near Veena's house and found that the door had been locked from inside and there was no response to repeated knocks. The locals who scaled the roof and removed the tiles found that three members of the family had killed themselves. Reasons for the same are unknown.