Panchkula, May 28 -- The 42-year-old man, who, along with six members of his family, died by suicide in a car parked outside a house in Sector 27, Panchkula, on Monday night, told a local resident in his final moments that he was under heavy debt and had no one to turn to for help.

Harshit Rana, the local who was among the first to spot the vehicle parked suspiciously outside his residence around 10 pm on Monday, said he approached the car out of curiosity. "I saw too many people lying inside and enquired from the man at the driver's seat, who appeared semi-conscious. Initially, he said they had come to attend Dhirendra Shastri's 'katha' in Sector 5 and couldn't find a hotel and thus were sleeping in the car. But when we looked closer, w...