Chandigarh, May 28 -- Six members of a family originally from Hisar, Haryana were found dead in a car parked in a vacant plot in Panchkula on Monday night, and a seventh died in hospital in what police suspect to be a suicide pact arising from financial distress. The police identified the deceased as a 42-year-old man, his wife, the couple's three children, including their 14-year-old son and 9-year-old twin girls, and the man's aged parents. Vikram Nehra , Assistant Commissioner of Police, HQ, said two suicide notes purportedly signed by the 42-year-old man were recovered from the car. "I have gone bankrupt. I am responsible for all this," one note said, according to police.P11

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