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--------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-month pregnant wife, spinster commit suicide --------------------------------------------------------------------- A three months pregnant woman from Valkeshwarwada-Betim and a 71-year-old spinster from Belsurwado in Sao Mathias (Divar) committed suicide on Wednesday.According to our Porvorim correspondent, the first incident occured on Wednesday morning, in which the 23-year-old housewife committed suicide by setting herself ablaze in her residence at Valkeshwarwada-Betim.
Porvorim police said Sarika alias Pinky Ajay Kataria, a native of Londa, was alone at home sometime between 9 am and 10 am, when she doused herself in kerosene and set herself ablaze. Her husband was outside the house. Sarika was charred to death, police added.
Autopsy reports attributed the death to shock consequent due to extensive flame burns. As the death took place within seven years of marriage, the inquest was carried out by the Mapusa Sub-Divisional Magistrate.Porvorim PSI Ram Asre is investigating the case.
Reporting about the second incident our Old Goa correspondent says the 71-year-old spinster from Belsurwado in Sao Mathias (Divar) committed suicide on Wednesday evening, by jumping near a sluice gate at Murdi in Sao Mathias.
Old Goa police said Luciana Almeida, an ex-nurse of Goa Medical College Hospital at Bambolim, was mentally disturbed for the past three years.
Sources informed Herald that the Almeida left the house at about 5 pm, reportedly told some people along the way that she was going to wash her legs.
Police said there were no external injury marks on the body and has initially ruled out foul play in the death.
After the inquest, the body was sent to GMC for an autopsy. ASI Manohar Gawas is investigating the case under the supervision of PI G N Gawde. ------------------------------------ HERALD 11/9/03 page 3 ------------------------------------
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