India, Feb. 26 -- The Kerala Police now suspects that a financial crisis was the motive behind the murder of five persons allegedly carried out by a 23-year-old man in three locations in Thiruvananthapuram's Venjaramoodu.

The victims include the accused's teenage brother, grandmother, paternal uncle, aunt, and a young woman, who is said to be his girlfriend. He had also confessed to killing his mother, who survived the massacre but remains in critical condition.

The accused, identified as Afan, is also hospitalised after he claimed to have consumed poison. Earlier, the police had said that there was "evidence of drug use" by the accused.

According to Sudarsan KS, district police chief, Thiruvananthapuram Rural, the accused told the pol...