Overview

• A 34-year-old woman in Laskana laced her seven-year-old son’s milk with Selfoss poison before consuming the same substance herself and died at New Civil Hospital while the boy remains hospitalized.
• In Athwalines, 41-year-old private-school teacher Alpesh Solanki allegedly mixed rat poison into his young sons’ soft drink and died by suicide after his two children were found dead.
• Laskana and Umra police have registered suicide and murder cases, conducted autopsies at New Civil Hospital and are recording statements from family members and neighbors.
• Investigators are examining evidence of debt, domestic pressures and psychological distress to determine what drove the suspected filicides and subsequent suicides.
• Authorities warn these back-to-back deaths underscore a wider national trend of familicide linked to socioeconomic strain and gaps in mental health support.