Summary:
In a gruesome incident, four members of a family -- including three children -- were killed while they were sleeping in Kuda village of Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Friday morning. At first, the police suspected the crime to be a family suicide pact, made in a desperate bid to escape overwhelming debt. The father Karsan Patel was found unconscious inside the house with several injuries on his head. At around 7 am, the neighbours found Anvi and the children lying in a pool of blood, while Karsan lay unconscious outside. Initally, the police suspected that Karsan murdered his family members, before consuming poison himself to escape harassment by money lenders..