Washington: An Indian couple was found dead at their home in the US after neighbours saw their four-year-old daughter crying alone in the balcony of their house.
Some US media outlets said the couple died of an apparent stabbing in their North Arlington apartment.
Local US newspapers quoted a press release from the county prosecutor’s office which said officers forced their way inside the apartment and found the couple dead.
The bodies of Balaji Bharat Rudrawar (32) and his wife Arati Balaji Rudrawar (30) were found at their 21 Garden Terrace apartment in the Riverview Gardens complex of North Arlington borough in New Jersey which has just over 15,000 residents.
The husband apparently stabbed and sliced his wife in the abdomen as she unsuccessfully tried to fight him off in their living room, a report said.
“Investigators were waiting for the medical examiner to determine the cause and circumstances of the death, but confirmed both victims had been stabbed,” the report said.
“My daughter-in-law was seven months pregnant,” Balaji’s father Bharat Rudrawar said. “We had been to their house and were planning a trip to the US again,” he said.