Kolkata, Feb. 28 -- The 14-year-old boy, who survived a car crash in Kolkata on February 19, has told officials of the state child rights body that his uncle, who orchestrated a suicide pact for the six-member family, after murdering two women and a teenaged girl on the morning of February 18, tried to smother him with a pillow but he held his breath and feigned death.
"The boy said that he can hold his breath for long. That morning, when his uncle tried to slash his wrist, he resisted. Later when his uncle tried to smother him with a pillow, he held his breath and feigned death till his uncle was convinced that he has died and left the room," said Ananya Chakraborti Chatterjee, advisor of West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rig...