A man was found hanging from the ceiling while his wife and daughter were spotted lying dead in a pool of blood in a house in the Palia area of Chhatrapur in Ganjan district on Wednesday morning.
Deceased Brundaban Behera was a businessman while his wife and daughter were identified as Urmila and Sunita, respectively. Sunita was studying Plus III.
As per reports, locals spotted the blood-soaked bodies of Urmila and Sunita lying on the floor in the drawing room of the house and informed police about the incident.
Ganjam SP Brijesh Kumar Rai along with other police officials rushed to the spot and later found Brundaban’s body hanging in a room of the house.
“Police got information about the bodies of mother and daughter lying on the floor and rushed to the spot. Upon investigation, we found another person hanging from the ceiling and launched an investigation,” said the SP.
A forensic team was also roped in to assist in investigation.
Though the exact reason behind the triple deaths was yet to be ascertained, preliminary investigation by the police indicated that Brunaban might have first killed his wife and daughter over some family feud before committing suicide by hanging.