Suicide by fire in Delhi: Woman commits suicide along with two daughters, burning fireplace, turning the room into a poisonous gas chamber

A woman along with her two daughters committed suicide in Delhi’s Vasant Vihar area on Saturday night. According to the Delhi Police, a 50-year-old woman lit a fireplace in the flat to commit suicide and converted it into a gas chamber. Police also found a lot of suicide notes from the room.

All the doors and windows of the flat were packed with polythene and the cylinder knob was open. A burning fireplace was also found nearby. It is believed that due to the smoke of coal, poisonous carbon monoxide gas was created in the room and all three suffocated. The deceased woman has been identified as Manju. She was ill for a long time and could not even get out of bed.

Written in suicide note – Deadly carbon monoxide gas is filled

A warning was written in a suicide note found on the spot. Police is investigating the case.

In one of the suicide notes found on the spot, instructions were written for the people entering the flat. It read – The room is filled with very deadly carbon monoxide gas, it is flammable. Please ventilate the room by opening the window and opening the fan. Do not light matches, candles or anything. Be careful when removing the curtain, because the room is full of dangerous gas, don’t breathe.

Kam Wali Bai informed the neighbors

The flat in Vasant Vihar, where the woman committed suicide along with her daughters.

According to a woman who worked in the flat earlier, Anju was upset due to money crunch. Bai, who works in Anju’s house, went to the flat several times since morning, but no one opened the door or picked up the phone. Bai informed the neighbors about this.

When neighbors tried to peek inside the flat through the window, they felt the gas. The police got information about this at around 9 pm on Saturday night.

Husband died last year
Neighbors have told the police that the woman’s husband had died of corona last year. Since then this family was troubled. Police said the bodies have been sent for post-mortem. Whether they died of suffocation or due to ingestion of any poisonous substance, it will be revealed in the post-mortem report.