Patan family suicide bid: Two more die

Palanpur: Two days after a 12-year-old girl succumbed following a mass suicide bid by five of a family in Patan, two others died at a hospital in Ahmedabad on Friday night.
Revabhai Parmar (45), along with his four children — daughters Nisha (17), Bhumi (13) and Bhanu (12) and son Punabhai (16) — had consumed poison outside the women’s police station in Patan on November 29.They were shifted to Dharpur civil hospital for treatment on the same day. On December 1, all five were shifted to Ahmedabad civil hospital where Anu died late in the night.
On Friday night, Revabhai and his son Puna breathed their last in Ahmedabad civil hospital.
According to police, Revabhai, a resident of Khakhal village in Harij taluka of Patan had attempted suicide with his four children as he was upset over his wife Asha (40) leaving them about a year ago.
He had lodged a police complaint accusing one Kamlesh Gosai from Kutch of adducting his wife and seven-year-old daughter. As the police could not trace Revabhai’s wife for over a year, he went into depression and took the extreme step of consuming poison with his four children.