HIV Positive

In a bizarre incident, a couple infected with deadly HIVdefine virus killed their three children and then committed suicide. The Bombay, India-based couple took this extreme step after discovering that their six-year-old daughter had contracted the virus that causes AIDS.

The bodies of Babu Ishwar Thevar, 39, his wife, Amothi, 33, two sons Venkatesh, 10, and Mani, 8, and daughter, Mahalaxmi, 6, were found in their home on Tuesday (August, 5) night.

The couple was living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIVdefine) for two years and had been depressed by news that their daughter also had the HIV virus.

The police think that the parents allegedly fed sweets laced with poison to their two boys, and as the daughter survived eating the poisoned sweets, the parents then smothered her with a pillow before committing suicide.

Bodies of Babu Thevar and Amothi, who lived in a middle-class district of Bombay, were found in a separate room. The couple had hanged themselves from the ceiling by a nylon rope. The dead man's younger brother Armugam found the bodies when he went to the house late that night after work.