India, April 30 -- Enraged that his wedding had been called off, a 27-year-old man stabbed his fiancee and her mother to death before attempting to die by suicide in Gokul Township in Virar west on Wednesday afternoon. A resident of Nalasopara east, he is in critical condition in a Virar hospital.

Bolinj police said the groom-to-be, who worked in a store in Virar, was engaged to a woman he had been seeing for two years. However, the woman's mother changed her mind about the marriage after differences cropped up between the two families.

On Tuesday night, the boy and his family arrived at his fiancee's home in Virar to try and work things out. When the girl's mother wouldn't budge, he and his family left.

Unable to accept that his weddi...