Father and son found dead in Macau’s Galaxy casino complex
Mother and other son were also found unconscious in same room at the resort’s five-star Hotel Okura
Detectives are investigating what appears to have been a suicide pact involving an Indian family of four after the bodies of a father and son were discovered alongside the man’s wife and another son, both unconscious, in a five-star hotel room at a Macau casino resort on Wednesday.
Four separate suicide notes – written in English – and a quantity of unidentified drugs were also found in the room at the Hotel Okura Macau, which forms part of the Galaxy casino complex, not far from the showpiece Cotai Strip, the heart of the world’s most cash-rich gaming destination.
According to Macau police, the two men who died were the 52-year-old father and elder son, 24, of an Indian family surnamed Lunawat.
The dead man’s wife, 45, and a younger son, 20, who were found unconscious at the scene, were in a critical condition on Wednesday night at Macau’s Centro Hospitalar Conde de Sao Januario.
Police have not released the contents of the suicide notes but said initial investigations found no obvious wounds on any of the victims and no signs of fighting or ransacking in the room.
Postmortem examinations will be conducted on the two deceased and tests are being carried out to identify the drugs.