India, May 21 -- A 35-year-old man in Assam's Nagaon allegedly killed his wife and a school teacher after he found them together at his home late on Tuesday evening and confessed to the murder at the local police station, police said.

Police said the man, Joykanta Das, who worked in Guwahati over 100km away, returned home unannounced at 11 pm on Tuesday and found Bhaskar Nath, a teacher at a local government school who lived in the same locality, with his wife. Their 10-year-old son was in another room.

Das told the police that he returned home late on Tuesday from Guwahati and found his wife with the teacher. His neighbours in Nagaon's Kampur area told reporters that he locked the door from inside and killed both of them.

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