AGARTALA, May 24 (TIWN): A horrifying report from Telengana once again exposed lockdown without proper preparations, vision how have devastated the poor section of people in whole India. 9 persons committed suicide in Telengana including one person from Tripura by jumping in a well. Ananda Bazar newspaper report shows, by not getting salaries for over 2 months due to lockdown, 9 stranded youths have chosen death by drowning self in a well. Their dead bodies were recovered from Gorekunta village of Hyderabad. Out of the 9 suicidal victims, 6 are from West Bengal (2 persons from a same family) and 2 from Bihar and 1 from Tripura. Police have suspected the case as Mob-Suicide. All the workers, including women, were employed at a local gunny bag manufacturing unit and had even partied on Wednesday evening, before four bodies were found in the open borewell by their supervisor on Thursday. The mystery behind the deaths deepened further after five more bodies were recovered from the same borewell on Friday.

 Shabaz and Sohail were sons of Maqsood, who had been living in Warangal for 20 years. Sham and Sriram, were natives of Bihar, while Shakeel was from Tripura. Warangal police said the well was nearly half a kilometre from the gunny unit.

A preliminary post-mortem examination of the bodies failed to detect any poison and there are no external injury marks on the bodies to indicate murder. “All the nine persons died between 9.30 pm on Wednesday and 5.30 am on Thursday. As of now it is a blind case, with no leads. We are waiting for a detailed forensic report from the viscera and liver samples to ascertain whether there was any poisoning,’’ additional deputy commissioner of police K Venkata Lakshmi said (as per TOI report).

Report : ANANDA BAZAR PATRIKA