A Twin Girl Lost Her Entire Family After Suspected Suicide in Malang

Liputan6.com, Malang - A teacher in Malang, East Java Province, was found dead in his home alongside his wife and one of her twin girls. The police suspected that debt problems causing the family to commit suicide.

They were found on Tuesday (12/12). One of the children, a middle school students, found their bodies in the morning.

The three victims were at that time sleeping in one room. On Tuesday morning, one of the twins woke up too late to perform morning prayer, and then she tried to wake up her parents in their room

She found her father with a severe wound on his wrist, and she called the neighbors for help. The father was taken to hospital but passed away.

Her mother and twin sister were found with poisons near their bodies.

Police suspected that the debt problem was the motive after questioning several people, including a local neighborhood leader and the surviving victim. Before the incident, the teacher with initials WE was trying to borrow money.

"Some witnesses whom we questioned have given information that during the previous few occasions, the father had pleaded, asked for help, to borrow some money," said Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit from Malang Resort Police, Gandha Syah Hidayat.

A week before the suicide, the father apologized for being unable to return the money. The police still have not found how much money that the victim borrowed. But so far, the police believed the cause was not online debt.

In recent years, there have been reports of people getting psychologically terrorized because of online debt. The messages were often sent to the borrower's family members or friends through WhatsApp.

"Until this point, the fact is his immediate family members or co-workers have never received terrorizing WA or SMS which is identical with online debt," Gandha said.

The wife of WE was helping the family's finance by selling cookies in their home. 

Police also found a farewell note which was allegedly written by the father. He asked his surviving twin daughter to take care of herself and obey her grandmother. Police said the father also left money for the funeral. 

The surviving twin with initials AKE was then taken to Women and Children Protection Unit in Malang Police. She was also accompanied by a psychologist.

Yusron Fahmi contributed to this report.