New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- A 55-year-old man and his wife were found dead in their residence in northeast Delhi's Jyoti Nagar early Friday in an apparent double suicide, police said, adding that a suicide note recovered from the home cited severe financial distress and unsustainable loan burdens as the reason.

Investigators said that the couple's children, who were not at home at the time of the incident, found their parents' bodies in separate rooms after returning home past midnight on Friday.

According to police, a call reporting the double suicide was received by the couple's children at 12.05am on Friday. A police team rushed to the house in Jyoti Nagar where the bodies of the husband and wife were found hanging from ceiling fans in sep...