India, Nov. 5 -- Two elderly women battling cancer died by suicide in separate incidents in Gurugram within a span of a few hours, police said on Tuesday.

According to investigators, a 65-year-old woman living in Sujan Vihar, Sushant Lok Phase-I (Sector 43) and a 62-year-old woman residing in Sector 56 took their own lives late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, respectively.

Police said the first incident took place around 10.45pm on Monday, when the Sector 43 resident jumped from the eighth floor of her residential building. Locals and guards alerted the police control room, following which an emergency response vehicle reached the spot and shifted the body to the government mortuary. Investigators said the woman lived with her h...