Jalandhar, March 30: Four persons of a family died after consuming poison at the Manko village here late Friday night.
The deceased have been identified as Bakhshinderjit Kaur (45), her three children Jaspreet Singh (18), Harmanjit Singh (12) and Balpreet Kaur (14).
Bakshinderjit’s husband Ajit Singh is an NRI and lives in Dubai.
Police said Bakhshinder’s son Jaspreet Singh called up their neighbours at 11.30 pm last night informing that they had consumed poisonous tablets.
Rushing to their home, the neighbours took them to a private hospital where all four of them succumbed.
While Ajit Singh is currently in Dubai, he has been informed about the incident.
SHO Adampur said a postmortem is being conducted. The SHO said the reasons for the dire step was not known.
