India, Dec. 26 -- Four members of a farming family were found dead at separate locations in Nanded district in Marathwada on Thursday morning, prompting police to suspect a case of mass suicide, police said.

The bodies of a 51-year-old farmer and his wife were found around 8 am on a cot inside their house at Jawala Murar village in Mudkhed tehsil. A short while later, their sons, aged 25 and 23, were found dead on nearby railway tracks. Police believe the two young men may have jumped before an oncoming train.

Police inspector Dattatray Manthale said the deaths appear to be linked, though the exact sequence of events is yet to be established.

"The parents were found inside the house, while the sons were found on the railway line. A for...