Varanasi: The shock of losing her younger brother proved unbearable for a 20-year-old girl, who allegedly ended her life shortly after learning that her 17-year-old brother had died by suicide in Mirzapur’s Hajipur village on Saturday morning. The back-to-back deaths of the siblings plunged the family and the village into mourning.Family members suspected that a heated exchange between the siblings during dinner on Friday night had left the boy upset.Mirzapur’s Adalhat SHO Baijnath said police rushed to the spot after receiving information and sent both bodies for postmortem. No complaint was lodged by the family.The tragedy first came to light when villagers passing by a well found the boy hanging from its railing. As the girl learnt that her younger brother was no more, she allegedly hanged herself. Family members discovered her hanging from the ceiling when they returned with the boy’s body. She was rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared her dead.
