KATHMANDU, Feb. 21 -- In a tragic incident, a man killed his wife and two children before taking his own life in the Sitapaila area of Kathmandu on Wednesday.

Thirty-seven-year-old Kaji Bishwakarma brutally murdered his 39-year-old wife, Prem Kumari Shrestha, along with their eight-year-old daughter, Anisa, and two-year-old granddaughter, Siwana, at Sitapaila at around 9:30 AM. Kaji was later found to have committed suicide by hanging on a tree in the Sitapaila area.

A team from the District Police Range, Kathmandu, and the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office promptly reached the incident site at Nagarjun Municipality-6, Swayambhu, shortly after the incident was reported.

According to the spokesman at the Valley Crime Investiga...