Bargarh: Panic gripped Pahadasirida village under Attabira Police Station limits in Odisha’s Bargarh district on Sunday morning when an old man committed suicide after killing his son.
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Sources said Pinki Subbarao (56) had a long-standing land dispute with his father Pinki Bariha (75). The duo had frequent altercations over the matter.
On Sunday morning, the father and the son had a heated exchange of words on the issue. In a fit of rage, Bariha attacked his son with an axe killing him on the spot.
Soon after the incident, Bariha went inside a room of his house and committed suicide after hanging himself from the ceiling of the roof.
Following information, a team of policemen from Attabira Police Station rushed to the village for an on-the-spot investigation.
The bodies were later taken for post-mortem.