Hungry husband kills wife, kids, self in West Bengal

Quoting eyewitnesses, police said 30-year-old Sushil Pakrey, an agricultural labourer, dragged his 25-year-old wife Jyotsna and two children, Nandagopal and Anamika, to the tracks, one kilometre away from Mashagram railway station.

After pushing them in front of a running train, he jumped in its path, killing all of them and himself. His body was caught in the engine's cowcatcher and dragged for nearly half-a-kilometre.

They lay on the tracks for 30 minutes as locals demonstrated before the stationmaster's room. The bodies were later removed and sent for post mortem.