Handicap, sickness drive two to commit suicide

BANGALORE: Two persons committed suicide in separate incidents in the city on Monday.
A physically handicapped person ended his life by hanging at his residence in Adarsh Nagar Fourth Main in Chandra Layout police limits on Monday evening. The deceased has been identified as Kandaswamy (45). He was working as an electrician and had lost a leg due to electric shock nine years ago.His wife Mallika (35) works with a garment factory and she was the only bread winner of the family. She told police that he had stopped going out of home because of illness and this made him think he was a burden on the family. The couple had two children, both PU students.