Panchkula, May 28 -- Six members of a family that originally belonged to Hisar were found dead in a car parked in a vacant plot in Sector 27, Panchkula, on Monday night, while the seventh died in hospital in what police suspect to be a suicide pact due to financial distress.

Panchkula deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Himadri Kaushik, said, "Prima facie, it appears to be a case of suicide. However, further investigations are on."

The deceased include a 42-year-old man, his wife, their three children - a 14-year-old son and 9-year-old twin daughters - and his parents.

According to the police, the family had recently shifted to a rented accommodation in Panchkula's Saketri after living in Dehradun and briefly with the man's father-in-l...