Parents, two kids found dead at their house in Kasaragod

coastaldigest.com web desk

May 5, 2018

Kasaragod, May 5: Four members of a family, including two children, have been found dead at their house at Adoor under the Adhur police station limits in Kasaragod.

It is suspected that the mother hanged the children to death following family discord and the father too resorted to the extreme step later.

The deceased have been identified as Kashinathan, 2, Sabarinathan, 5, their mother Praseetha, 33, and their father Radhakrishnan.

Their bodies were found around 8 p.m. by a relative at their one-bedroom house at Edaparamba, M.A. Mathew, Adhur Circle Inspector of Police, who is heading the investigation into the case, said on Friday.

Radhakrishnan, a casual labourer, was reportedly a habitual drunkard, and it is suspected that Praseedha might have resorted to the extreme step upset over her husband’s habit, their relatives reportedly told the police.

The bodies were handed over to relatives later and were cremated in the evening.

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The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

The shrimp has now been confirmed at two locations: the Mulki–Pavanje estuary near Mangaluru and the Kuakhai River in Bhubaneswar. Historical specimens from the Andaman Islands, previously labelled as A. moluccensis, were also found to be misidentified and actually belong to A. spinipes.

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