World | Updated Dec 17, 2009 at 02:43pm IST

Indian family ends life over financial woes in Dubai

UNI

Dubai: Three members of an Indian family in Dubai – a mother and two children – committed suicide but the father who tried to hang himself survived with injuries, police said.

The 38-year-old Indian woman, her 22-year-old son from an earlier marriage and her 20-year-old sister hanged themselves on Wednesday in their residence in Karama, a predominantly Indian locality, in an apparent suicide pact.

Financial problems were behind the tragedy, according to a note left by the family.

The locality next to the popular Lulu centre, owned by an Indian expatriate businessman, was abuzz with personnel from fire forces and police who received a call about the tragedy.

The woman's husband who runs a business has been rushed to the hospital and is also being questioned by the police.

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