<p>A 45-year-old man allegedly hacked to death his wife and two children with a sword and then killed himself following a fight over their pet dog in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district on Sunday, police said.</p>.<p>The incident took place in the wee hours of Sunday at the family's house in Badnagar area, located about 50 km from the district headquarters, they said.</p>.Four arrested for murder of BJP leader in Jharkhand's Latehar.<p>Sub-Divisional Officer of Police Mahendra Singh Parmar said as per the investigation, Dilip Pawar started beating his domestic dog at around 1 am.</p>.<p>His wife Ganga (40), their son Yogendra (14) and daughter Neha (17) intervened and asked Pawar to leave the pet alone, he said.</p>.<p>Pawar, in a fit of rage, then allegedly killed his wife and two children with a sword. His other two children ran out of the house for safety, the official said.</p>.<p>After a while, the accused allegedly stabbed himself to death with some sharp-edged weapon in his house, he said.</p>.<p>The official said as per the initial investigation, Pawar was a heavy drinker.</p>.<p>“Right now, we can't say confidently that he was drunk when he killed his wife and two children. The investigation is on,” he said.</p>.<p>The accused had no job since some months. He had a freight vehicle with which he used to make a living, but he sold it some time back, the official said as per the investigation.</p>.<p>'After getting information at around 5 am, we rushed to the spot and sent the bodies for postmortem,' Parmar said.</p>.<p>A forensic science laboratory team also reached the spot, police said. </p>
<p>A 45-year-old man allegedly hacked to death his wife and two children with a sword and then killed himself following a fight over their pet dog in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district on Sunday, police said.</p>.<p>The incident took place in the wee hours of Sunday at the family's house in Badnagar area, located about 50 km from the district headquarters, they said.</p>.Four arrested for murder of BJP leader in Jharkhand's Latehar.<p>Sub-Divisional Officer of Police Mahendra Singh Parmar said as per the investigation, Dilip Pawar started beating his domestic dog at around 1 am.</p>.<p>His wife Ganga (40), their son Yogendra (14) and daughter Neha (17) intervened and asked Pawar to leave the pet alone, he said.</p>.<p>Pawar, in a fit of rage, then allegedly killed his wife and two children with a sword. His other two children ran out of the house for safety, the official said.</p>.<p>After a while, the accused allegedly stabbed himself to death with some sharp-edged weapon in his house, he said.</p>.<p>The official said as per the initial investigation, Pawar was a heavy drinker.</p>.<p>“Right now, we can't say confidently that he was drunk when he killed his wife and two children. The investigation is on,” he said.</p>.<p>The accused had no job since some months. He had a freight vehicle with which he used to make a living, but he sold it some time back, the official said as per the investigation.</p>.<p>'After getting information at around 5 am, we rushed to the spot and sent the bodies for postmortem,' Parmar said.</p>.<p>A forensic science laboratory team also reached the spot, police said. </p>