India, July 26 -- A 26-year-old army soldier and his wife were found dead on Friday evening around five km away from their Gwalior house in Madhya Pradesh, with preliminary investigations suggesting death by suicide, police said.

A passerby found the couple hanging in the forest behind the Chitrakoot Dham Siddheshwar temple at Cancer Pahariya and alerted the police.

"It is suspected to be death by suicide, but the exact reason will be known after postmortem," city superintendent of police of Gwalior Heena Khan said.

Police identified the deceased as an army soldier who was posted in Jalandhar and his wife, a 25-year-old woman from Haryana. "A team of police have thoroughly searched the bodies, but no suicide note was found. The decease...