TIWN Nov 24, 2019
AGARTALA, Nov 24 (TIWN): At least 10 people have died in starvation whereas 2 committed suicide after poisoning two of their own children.
Earlier 6 Brus died in starvation at the relief camp of the Bru Community in Kanchanpur, North Tripura.
With 6 Brus and 4 family members total 10 people have been counted in the row of tolls.
In a tragic incident, four members of a poor family committed suicide at Sadhu Bairagi Para in western Tripura.
"One Paresh Tanti, 32, and his wife Sandhya Tanti, 28, first poisoned two of their children -- Bishal Tanti, 9 and Rupali Tanti, 5 -- to death and then killed themselves by hanging from a tree nearby their thatched house," Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Amitava Paul said.
He said the reason behind the deaths could not be ascertained immediately. However, local people said that abject poverty is the cause of the mass suicide.
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