Bengaluru: A 70-year-old man ended his life by leaking the gas from an LPG cylinder inside the bathroom and setting himself ablaze at his residence in Srinivaspura in Subramanyapura police station limits.
The deceased, identified as Ramulu Naidu, was said be under depression and took the extreme step when his wife was at her relative’s house. The police said that Ramulu and his wife were at their relative’s house to attend a reception on Saturday night. After finishing dinner, Ramulu told his wife that he would go home and sleep and asked her to come in the morning. Ramulu who came home late night dragged an LPG cylinder from the kitchen to the bathroom.
He took a matchbox along with him and closed the door. He then switched on the regulator and lit the matchstick, the police said. As the gas had no way out, it filled the bathroom within seconds and the lit matchstick immediately triggered the fire.
He was charred to death and later the cylinder exploded, the police added. The incident came to light when some passerby spotted the fire inside Ramulu’s house and alerted the police. Police said the incident took place around 4 am. The couple has two children who also stay in Hanumanthpur.
