Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, November 12 2010:
In an incident that was as macabre as it was disturbing, a 45 year-old man and father of two, who had just separated from his wife killed, both his sons nad later hanged himself to death at New Lamka's Vengnuam here at around 11.30 am.
Zamkhanmuan, a former army man allegedly told his mother to take a stroll at around 11 am today before he was found hanging on the kitchen and the highly mutilated body of his two minor sons, Thangkhankhup, 10 and Thangbiakmang, 3 unearthed inside their bathroom.
Family sources said they have no reason to suspect that Zamkhanmuan would take such an extreme step to end his life and that of his sons.
Nevertheless he was trying to woo his wife Chiinzaching back as she had returned to her paternal home some days back, they added.
In the absence of his wife he was living with his mother and his two sons.
Pumkhanmang, the first to arrive at the scene said as they cut the rope with which Zamkhanmuan hanged himself,one of his accompanying friend Pauminthang unearth the highly mutilated body of the two boys inside the bathroom-cum-toilet while trying to keep the rope aside.
Both the boys have their throat slit while the younger one bore cut marks and wounds on his abdomen as well.
The elder was reading class four at Ebenezer Academy located in their own locality.
The younger is yet to attend school, sources said.
Though the incident was reported to the police initially, sources said, it was withdrawn later, and the dead bodies buried today itself on the request of their family.