Mass Suicide

The bodies of a farmer, his wife, and three children were found in their house in a village in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, police said.

Arriving officers found five people with gunshot wounds, a man, an older woman, and three children.

A couple and their 11-year-old daughter were found dead at a resort in Karnataka's Kodagu in a suspected case of mass suicide, the police said.

Police in Maine that the man who gunned down 18 people at a bar and a bowling alley and later committed suicide, suffered serious mental health issues, but was able to buy weapons legally because he had never been forcibly committed to treatment.

Seven members of a family, including three children under the age of eight, have been found dead in a suspected mass suicide in Surat. Police said a suicide note has been recovered.

Kiran Rathod (52), his wife Neetaben (50), and their two sons Harsh (24) and Harshil (19) from Dholka town here allegedly consumed a poisonous substance on Tuesday night.

The gunman who slayed two victims during a mass shooting in Auckland on the opening day of the Women's World Cup killed himself during a shoot-out, New Zealand police said Monday.

The body of a 50-year-old man was found in a forest patch of Goa a couple of days ago, while that of his wife and minor son were recovered off Devbag beach in neighbouring Karnataka, with police suspecting it may be a case of mass suicide.

The man who opened fire at a California dance venue during Lunar New Year celebration has died from suicide after his vehicle was surrounded by cops, police said. Ten people were killed and 10 others injured in the mass shooting on Sunday.

Two years after 11 members of a family of Hindu migrants from Pakistan were found dead at a farm in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, police are yet to conclude what drove them to take the extreme step.

A group of farmers protesting the acquisition of 1,810 acres of land in Haryana's Manesar region on Wednesday sought from the government "permission" for mass suicide, news agency PTI reported.

A former DIG and four others were sentenced to eight-year imprisonment by a local court in a 2004 case in which a family of five had committed suicide, blaming the accused for the extreme step.

After 16 years of the crime, former Punjab Deputy Inspector General Kultar Singh along with five other police personnel were held guilty by a local court in a mass suicide case.

When William Patrick Williams called his grandmother from a hotel room on July 13, she could hear him fiddling with the AK-47 rifle he had bought two days earlier. He told her he was homicidal and suicidal, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office, and said he wanted to "shoot up" the hotel and then "commit suicide by c...

The teenager who opened fire with an assault rifle at a weekend food festival in Northern California, killing three people, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, autopsy results announced on Friday found.

The bodies of a farmer, his wife, and three children were found in their house in a village in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, police said.

Arriving officers found five people with gunshot wounds, a man, an older woman, and three children.

A couple and their 11-year-old daughter were found dead at a resort in Karnataka's Kodagu in a suspected case of mass suicide, the police said.

Police in Maine that the man who gunned down 18 people at a bar and a bowling alley and later committed suicide, suffered serious mental health issues, but was able to buy weapons legally because he had never been forcibly committed to treatment.

Seven members of a family, including three children under the age of eight, have been found dead in a suspected mass suicide in Surat. Police said a suicide note has been recovered.

Kiran Rathod (52), his wife Neetaben (50), and their two sons Harsh (24) and Harshil (19) from Dholka town here allegedly consumed a poisonous substance on Tuesday night.

The gunman who slayed two victims during a mass shooting in Auckland on the opening day of the Women's World Cup killed himself during a shoot-out, New Zealand police said Monday.

The body of a 50-year-old man was found in a forest patch of Goa a couple of days ago, while that of his wife and minor son were recovered off Devbag beach in neighbouring Karnataka, with police suspecting it may be a case of mass suicide.

The man who opened fire at a California dance venue during Lunar New Year celebration has died from suicide after his vehicle was surrounded by cops, police said. Ten people were killed and 10 others injured in the mass shooting on Sunday.

Two years after 11 members of a family of Hindu migrants from Pakistan were found dead at a farm in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, police are yet to conclude what drove them to take the extreme step.

A group of farmers protesting the acquisition of 1,810 acres of land in Haryana's Manesar region on Wednesday sought from the government "permission" for mass suicide, news agency PTI reported.

A former DIG and four others were sentenced to eight-year imprisonment by a local court in a 2004 case in which a family of five had committed suicide, blaming the accused for the extreme step.

After 16 years of the crime, former Punjab Deputy Inspector General Kultar Singh along with five other police personnel were held guilty by a local court in a mass suicide case.

When William Patrick Williams called his grandmother from a hotel room on July 13, she could hear him fiddling with the AK-47 rifle he had bought two days earlier. He told her he was homicidal and suicidal, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office, and said he wanted to "shoot up" the hotel and then "commit suicide by c...

The teenager who opened fire with an assault rifle at a weekend food festival in Northern California, killing three people, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, autopsy results announced on Friday found.