A 36-year-old man suffering from fever, committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district to save his village from being infected with the coronavirus. The deceased, Mahendra Singh, who worked as a farmer, assumed that he contracted the illness and killed himself out of fear, police said, The Times of India reported.

According to the relatives, Singh killed himself by jumping into a well on early Monday morning at around 3 am. His body was fished out from a well by local policemen a few hours later.