Malkangiri: In a shocking incident, the bodies of a man, his wife and minor daughter were found at Mundiguda village on Sunday.
While the bodies of the woman and her daughter were found hanging inside their house, the man’s body was found hanging from a tree.
The deceased man was identified as Singa Kumar. Preliminary probe shows Kumar killed his wife and daughter and later committed suicide, said police.
Raj Kishore Das, IIC, Malkangiri police station, said, “We guess that the man killed his wife and hanged the girl child after a family quarrel. There was a stab injury on the neck of the woman. Later the man appears to have lost his mental balance and hanged himself from a tree.”
Sources said another girl child of the family survived because she was not present at the spot when the incident happened.