Pune:
A businessman in Pune strapped four of his children to the ceiling fan in their home before hanging himself. Three children died. The eldest, nine-year-old Dhanashri, managed to free herself. She phoned her relatives, who rushed over to help her.
The businessman, Chandrasekhar Ranaware, owned at least four shops and four flats in Pune's Baner area; he reportedly had four wives. After a fight this morning with one of them, he flew into a rage, according to the police.
Of the children who died with him today, the youngest was three years old.