KANPUR, Feb. 17 -- A 52-year-old retired armyman, who was a Kargil war veteran, allegedly shot his wife and 16-year-old son dead with a double-barrelled gun at their home here in Sen Pashchim Para area, before dying by suicide on a nearby railway track on Monday morning, police said.

The retired serviceman, a resident of Tulsiyapur's Nai Basti, allegedly turned his licensed firearm on his 40-year-old wife and their 16-year-old son following a suspected domestic row.

After the killings, the accused reportedly walked out, locked the main gate from the outside to delay discovery, and trekked nearly two kilometres to the railway tracks near Kathogar village where he allegedly jumped before a moving train and died.

The double murder came to...