COIMBATORE: A 46-year-old daily wage laborer committed suicide by consuming pesticide on Friday night in Coimbatore. Anandha Kumar, 46, working as a load man in Karruppa gounder street market in the city, was a resident of Narasipuram near Kuniyamuthoor.
Father of three daughters, the eldest of whom is doing her second year B.Com in a private college, Anandha Kumar was depressed for the past two days amid humiliating taunts from his friends-creditors who lent him over Rs 75,000, apparently for his children’s education.
Police said that on Friday evening, Anandha Kumar came out of his house and consumed some pesticide in front of a bakery near Edayarpalayam on the outskirts of the city, off Coimbatore-Palakkad main road.
Even as Anandha Kumar fainted and collapsed within a few minutes, members of the public there rushed him to the Coimbatore General hospital, but he died on the way to the hospital. Kuniyamuthur police have lodged a complaint and are investigating.
