Times of India (May 4, 2012)
Indian family found dead in Australiaā€ˇ
MELBOURNE: An Indian-origin family of four, including two children, was
found dead here today and Australian police are treating it as a
murder-suicide case.
The bodies of Nilesh Sharma, 34, his wife Pritika, 32, five-year-old
Divesh and three-year-old Divya were found dead at their Glen Waverley
home in the city's eastern outskirts.
Nilesh, an accountant, was found in a hallway, the others in their
bedrooms.
The Fijian-Indian family, which moved to Australia over a decade ago,
had lived in Glen Waverley for at least two years and appeared to have
been a normal, happy couple, Australian news agency AAP reported.
Police say the four deaths are being treated as a murder-suicide with
officers stressing that no suspects are being sought. "Everybody is
devastated," said Abhay Singh, an uncle of the two deceased children.
Everyone had attended a family get-together on Saturday, he said,
drinking, laughing, and socialising well into the night.
"They were a really lovely family, very reserved," Mr Singh said.
"It is shattering," he said. The children hadn't been seen at school
for two days before worries for their wellbeing turned into a phone
call to the police to check up on them.
Singh recalled how the family was recovering well from a car crash last
year. Singh said the couple did not have marriage problems and he
believed they died from a leaking gas tank.
"It's a mystery," he said. Post-mortem examinations will be undertaken
tomorrow to confirm causes of death
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