‘Will also die in 5 minutes’: Shocking last words of 7th member in Panchkula family suicide case

‘Will also die in 5 minutes’: Hours after six family members' bodies were found in a car in Panchkula, Haryana, a local told reporters that he saw the car parked near his house and one of the family members was still alive.

The witness said that the family member said in his last words that he would die in five minutes because he had consumed poison.

The eyewitness said to reporters that he received a phone call from his brother saying that he had spotted an unknown vehicle parked near his house. He told him there was a Uttarakhand registration number and the windshields were covered in towels.

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“When we opened one of the doors of the car, we saw people lying inside the vehicle. The person on the driving seat was alive and told us that his family did not find a hotel and were returning from an event, so they all slept in the car," the local told reporters.

“I asked him to park his car somewhere in the market area, and he started to turn the engine on. That’s when I saw that all members of his family had vomited," he said.

“Sensing something fishy, I asked the man to step out of the car, and he sat on a ramp at the roadside. He told me his family was drowning in debt and that he, too, would be dead in the next five minutes. He also said that all his family members had died by suicide. He collapsed moments later," the local said.

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“He told me that his family was being troubled by a bank over a debt. Also said his relatives were very rich but no one came forward to help us."

“None of those in the car responded when I tried to talk to them, they were all dead. The police reached the spot in two minutes. However, the ambulance arrived only 45 minutes later," he said.

Officers said the seventh family member was alive and died later.

A suicide note was also recovered from the car which noted financial distress as the reason for the family's extreme measure.

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