BELOGIVAVI: Depressed for the death of his wife because of mukormycosis (black mushroom), a former 46-year-old servic died of suicide allegedly after killing his four children by giving them poisons in Sankeshwar.
The police said Gopal Hadiimani was destroyed by the death of his wife, Jaya, on July 6, he has contracted Covid-19 and then mukormycosis and died in care.
Hadiimani retired about three years ago.
Tragedy Tragedy gave toxins to children before killing himself: Coppolice said the bodies were found on Saturday morning by neighbors who opened the door when no one answered their repetitive knock.
Fifth was found lying on the floor, police said.
Sowmya, 19, and 16 years old Shwetha studied at a private college in Sankeshwar Town while Sakshi (11) and Srijan (8) were at school in Borgal.
The villagers immediately told the relatives of the police and Hadimani.
The police suspected the gopal fed to eat poisons to children before he consumed him; The source said there were signs of struggle at home.
They are still looking poisons or the rest.
More details will be known only after the autopsy report, the Siad police.
“I talked to children on Friday night on the phone and they said that they had dinner at 9pm,” Shobha said, relatives.
“I don’t know what happened later.” Neighbors said Hadiimani had sneaked into depression after Jaya’s death and even stopped talking to them.
He was still sad the death of his wife while the children slowly recovered, they said.
District Minister Govind Karjol said he was very sad with death.
“I urge people who suffer from depression to seek help and have not made a hasty decision,” he said.