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Depression 'led HIV duo to kill children'
Police on Saturday said depression drove an HIV-positive couple to poison their young children and commit suicide.
- AP
- Published: 00:02 August 10, 2008
Mumbai: Police on Saturday said depression drove an HIV-positive couple to poison their young children and commit suicide.
Deputy commissioner of police Rajkumar Vatkar says a relative found film distributor Ishwar Thevar and his wife hanging from a ceiling fan and their children dead in an adjoining room in an apartment in a Mumbai suburb earlier this week. He said yesterday the three children had been fed food laced with poison before the couple hung themselves. Police believe medical reports that their four-year-old daughter was also HIV-positive triggered the suicide.
HIV-positive people face discrimination in India, which has about 2.5 million people infected with the virus.
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