A 33-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by drowning herself in a lake, following her husband’s death due to COVID-19 in Maharashtra’s Nanded district, police said on Thursday. The woman’s three-year-old son also followed her into Sunegaon lake in Loha and drowned as a result on Wednesday night, an official said. According to the police, a 40-year-old labourer from Telangana had come to Loha, 40 km from Nanded, in search of work and had gotten infected with the disease.

 

 

 

 

The man died in a hospital on April 13, following which his wife committed suicide by drowning herself in the lake, the official said. The couple had three children, and one of them, a 3-year-old boy, followed his mother into the lake and drowned.