Man kills wife and 3 kids; confesses on WhatsApp family group with video

In a shocking case, a software engineer allegedly killed his wife and three young children on Sunday. After which he put up a confession video on a family WhatsApp group.

According to NDTV, the man identified as Sumit, allegedly stabbed his 32-year-old wife and three children at around 3:00 am on Sunday at their home in Ghaziabad's Indirapuram area. While the eldest child was five, the younger children were four-year-old twins. Currently, the man, who lives in Ghaziabad, is missing after telling his brother-in-law that he is going to commit suicide.

Meanwhile, the police who are investigating the case said, Sumit had lost his job at an IT company in Bengaluru in January. Financial problems following this may have prompted him to take the extreme step of murdering his family. The incident came to light at around 6:00 in the evening on Sunday when the man posted a video on his family WhatsApp group, confessing to the crime.

Minutes after the incident, Sumit called up his brother-in-law and said that he was going to kill himself. He is yet to be traced. Currently, the bodies of the mother and the three children have been sent for postmortem and investigations are on.