Daughter\'s Death Drives Omani Couple to Suicide

Published December 4th, 2000 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Oman's Keralite community has been shocked to hear of the suicide of a couple who found it difficult to live after their three-year old girl had died of leukaemia, the Gulf News reported Monday. 

Fifty-four-year-old Venugopal, who worked as a civil engineer in Oman for two decades and his wife Thangmani were crushed under a train last Tuesday at the Aluwa railway station near Kochi, one day after their girl, Vishnumaya, had died, the daily said, quoting Oman News -- Albawaba.com 

 

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