A middle-aged woman allegedly killed herself after her husband was killed in a <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/rajasthan-accident-three-killed-four-injured-after-car-hits-two-bikes-in-tonk-23319872" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">road accident</a> in Odisha's Khordha district, police said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.
According to the PTI, the woman identified as Anindita Subudhi ended her life by hanging herself at her house in Benagodiapatna village in Bolgarh police station area on Monday night, they said.
Anindita's husband Gokul Chandra Sahu was critically injured in a road accident when he was returning home on a motorcycle on Sunday evening. He was first admitted to the Khurda hospital, and then taken to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar where he died, they added, as per the PTI.
Unable to bear the trauma, Anindita killed herself after completing the last rights of Gokul, police said.
The woman's body was sent for a post-mortem examination, they said, noting that an investigation was underway.
Meanwhile, in an another incident in Odisha,&nbsp;an 80-year-old woman reportedly died after falling into a borewell in Odisha's Sonepur district, officials said on Tuesday, according to the PTI.
The woman, identified as Dukhi Negi, was taken out of the 20-feet-deep borewell in a critical condition after a five-hour-long rescue operation and rushed to a hospital where doctors declared her brought dead, as per the PTI.
The news agency reported, the elderly woman had slipped and fallen into the abandoned borewell in a forested area near Kainphula village in Sadar block on Monday evening, a <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/maharashtra-crime-man-stabs-cousin-to-death-suspecting-him-of-affair-with-wife-in-latur-23319868" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">police</a> officer said, adding her family claimed she was deaf and mute.
Locals searched for the woman the entire night and also informed the police. She was found in the borewell on Tuesday morning, following which the Fire Services and Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) launched the rescue operation.
The rescue team supplied oxygen into the borewell to help the woman breathe and dug a parallel hole to bring her out.
After being brought out of the borewell in a critical condition, she was taken to Sonepur district hospital, where treating doctors declared her brought dead.
"She had died before being brought to the hospital," Somi Purohit, a doctor at the Sonepur hospital said.
Sonepur Superintendent of Police Amaresh Panda said the woman's pulse rate was very low when she was brought out of the borewell.
(with PTI inputs)
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A middle-aged woman allegedly killed herself after her husband was killed in a road accident in Odisha`s Khordha district, police said

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A middle-aged woman allegedly killed herself after her husband was killed in a road accident in Odisha's Khordha district, police said

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