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Odisha: Police recover decomposed bodies of a couple and their two minor children

| @indiablooms | Jan 11, 2020, at 05:50 pm

Bhubaneswar/UNI: Police today recovered decomposed bodies of four members of a family including two minor children from a house in the IT Colony of Rajagangpur in Sundergarh district.

Police broke open the door of the house in the presence of Magistrate and recovered the bodies of Ranjit Prasad, his wife Kalpana their three-year-old daughter and a half-year-old son.

Police reached the spot after the neighbours complained of a foul smell coming out of the house.

Police found a pot filled with milk from the side of the bodies. Though the exact cause of the reason for the death was not yet known to police suspected that they have committed suicide by consuming milk laced with poison.

Police have sent the bodies for postmortem.

The district Superintendent of Police and a scientific team reached the spot and inquiring into the incident. Ranjit Prasad who hailed from Bihar was working in a private company in Rajgangpur.

Neighbours said they had seen the family members on Thursday last.  

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