By IANS,
Dubai : Financial difficulties drove a young Indian family, whose bodies were fished out of the Dubai Creek, to death, police said Friday.
The bodies of Girish Kumar, 29, his wife Shabija, 27, and their 20-month-old daughter Gauri Nanda were fished out of the creek in the heart of this city Wednesday.
A police spokesman told reporters that the family was under heavy financial burden and that was what apparently drove to them to this extreme step.
While Girish’s death is being treated as a suicide, the deaths of the mother and daughter are being investigated.
Girish, who was working with Dubai Coating Ltd, earned less than 2,000 dirhams ($545) a month.
“Loans, credit card dues and other liabilities were weighing heavily on his head,” reports here quoted a colleague of Girish as saying.
The bodies of Shabija and the baby were first spotted floating on the Dubai Creek Wednesday.
The bodies were taken to the General Department of Forensic Medicine by the Dubai coast guard.
Later, Girish’s body was also fished out.
Reports here said neighbours saw Girish rushing out of his house carrying the baby around 5 a.m. Tuesday morning followed by his wife who had burn injuries on her hands and legs.
The neighbours also gave police the registration number of the car in which the family drove off.
Girish’s brother Manikanttan lodged a report with the police after repeated telephone calls to his home did not elicit an answer.
Manikanttan received a call Wednesday afternoon from the police informing him that three bodies had been fished out from the Dubai Creek.
He later went and identified the bodies.
The family hailed from Kozhikode in Kerala.