Hardoi (Uttar Pradesh): A school teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi died by suicide a day after his wife’s death in accident, police said.
Yogesh Kumar, 36, left behind a note in which he said: ‘We will live together and die together.’
His wife Manikarnika Kumari, 28, a paramedic, died in a road on the Lucknow-Hardoi highway under the Sursa police station area on Monday.
The tragic death of the couple came six months after their marriage.
Manikarnika Kumari died after an unidentified vehicle hit her scooter as she was on the way to Tadiyawana primary health centre, where she was a nurse, Sursa Station House Officer (SHO), Indresh Kumar Yadav said.
"With the help of her identity card and mobile number, she was identified and her husband was informed," SHO Yadav reportedly added.
At the scene of accident, Yogesh collected his wife’s belongings and back home he locked himself in a room.
Their neighbours who came to condole with him found the room locked up; they broke the door and found Yogesh hanging from the ceiling.