Andhra Doctor, Facing "Financial Troubles", Found Dead With 4 Family Members

Police are investigating if the doctor first killed his four family members and then died by suicide.

Five members of a family including a financially struggling doctor were found dead in their home at Vijayawada, police said on Wednesday.

While four were found with slash injuries, one hung to death, said Vijayawada East deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Adhiraj Singh Rana, adding that the bodies were discovered by them on Tuesday morning and suspected that the crime might have occurred on Monday night.

D Srinivas (40) was found hanging while his wife D Usha Rani (38), two minor children--boy and a girl-- and his mother D Ramanamma (70) were found with their jugular veins slashed, police said.