India, June 11 -- A 40-year-old man allegedly attempted to die by suicide after murdering his wife and minor daughter over alleged marital strife in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Wednesday, police said.

The police said that the man slit his wrist after stabbing his 30-year-old wife and four-year-old daughter. "On Tuesday night, the couple had a fight before the husband stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife. He also killed his daughter before slitting his own wrist," an officer said.

The man is receiving treatment in a hospital, while his wife and daughter were declared dead when taken to the hospital, the officer added.

"Preliminary investigations revealed that the man killed his wife and daughter due to marital strife. Further inv...