Kozhikode Police Probe Suspected Murder-Suicide of Teen and Cousin

Overview

• Neighbours found a 16-year-old and her 20-year-old cousin unresponsive in separate rooms of a Kozhikode home, and doctors later declared both dead at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.
• Police say preliminary evidence indicates the teenager was strangled and the man then died by suicide, and they are treating the case as a suspected murder-suicide.
• An FIR opened the formal probe, and officers have begun forensic work at the house and collected CCTV footage to map the night’s events.
• The 20-year-old has been identified in reports as Adnan, and investigators have not confirmed a motive as they review accounts of earlier family disputes and a possible entry with a duplicate key.
• Autopsy results and crime-scene analysis are expected to help fix the time of death and the sequence of what happened inside the home.