An Indian couple was found dead at their home in the US after neighbours saw their four-year-old daughter crying alone on the balcony of their house, family sources said on Friday.
The husband appeared to have stabbed and sliced his wife in the abdomen as she unsuccessfully tried to fight him off in their living room, a US media report said.
The bodies of Balaji Bharat Rudrawar and his wife Arati Balaji Rudrawar were found at their 21 Garden Terrace apartment in the Riverview Gardens complex of North Arlington borough in New Jersey which has just over 15,000 residents.
The police are investigating the incident. “The bodies were found on Wednesday after neighbours saw my granddaughter crying in the balcony and informed the local police who then entered the house,” Balaji’s father Bharat Rudrawar told PTI.
He also said that his daughter-in-law was pregnant and did not suspect any foul play.
The couple’s daughter is with a friend of her father. Balaji Rudrawar, an IT professional from Ambajogai in Maharashtra’s Beed district had moved with his wife to the US in August 2015 after they got married in December 2014.
This is a second suicide-murder in recent days, that involved a child. On Saturday, a convicted sex offender died by suicide Saturday following an hours-long SWAT standoff at his home. Before killing himself, he had killed his former wife in front of their 5-year-old daughter.