Palghar: Man commits suicide after attacking wife, daughter with sickle

A 43-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after attacking and injuring his wife and daughter with a sickle in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, a police official said.

The incident took place in Bawada in Navapada in the district’s Dahanu area, the official said.

The man doubted his wife’s character, which caused frequent fights between them. At 6:30am, he attacked his wife with a sickle and also his daughter when she intervened. He then hanged himself, Palghar police spokesperson Sachin Navadkar said.

Earlier a man was arrested on Monday in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly killing a person recently for not repaying a loan and dismembering his body using a wood cutter, while another accused in the case had committed suicide last month, a police official said.