A man murdered his wife and daughter by setting fire to a goods autorickshaw after locking them inside it and ended his life by jumping into a well at a rubber plantation near Perinthalmanna on Thursday.
The incident took place at Kondipparamba on the Perinthalmanna-Pandikkad road in the afternoon. A family quarrel between Mohammed, 52, and his wife Jasmin, 37, was feared to have led to the murder.
Mohammed was living estranged from Jasmin. Father of three children, Mohammed summoned his wife and two children to his goods autorickshaw parked in a rubber plantation near their house under the pretext of a patch-up, and set them on fire after locking them inside the autorickshaw.
