Chennai, March 17 -- In a shocking incident, four people were found charred to death inside a car near a forest area at Thisayanvilai in the southern Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday.
Acting on information that a burnt car was found abandoned near the Pettaikulam forest area, police officials arrived at the spot and found people charred to death.
It was believed that all the four belonged to the same family.
It was not known whether it was a suicide pact due to mounting debts, or murder and special teams were formed the ascertain the real reason for the incident.
The car was completely burnt and police retrieved the charred bodies--their identity is being established--and sent them to the government hospital for post mortem...