KOLAR: An incident of a father killing his 5-year-old daughter and himself following desertion by his wife has been reported from Kolar district of Karnataka on Thursday.
The deceased were identified as 37-year-old Lokesh, a resident of Madiyanuru village in Mulbagal taluk and his daughter, 5-year-old Niharika.
According to preliminary investigations, Lokesh's wife had deserted him following a dispute in the family recently. Disturbed by the desertion, Lokesh first strangled his daughter to death, and later he hanged himself from a tree.