LONDON – A 34-year-old lab technician and a mother of two created a poisonous gas concoction at home, to kill herself and her children in UK. Heena Solanki, 34, originally from Gujarat, is believed to have used her knowledge of chemistry to poison her daughters Prisha, 4, and Jasmine, 9, at their home.
The three were found dead at the house in Ruislip, west London by Heena’s husband Kalpesh, 42, and his parents. Local media said on Sunday that the lab technician mother “poisoned her two daughters with toxic concoction and killed herself” at the family home.
The police, who arrvived at the scene of the triple tragedy, asked neighbours to close all their doors and windows as there had been “chemical incident” at the house. Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s homicide and serious crime and command were examining the five-bedroom house.
A spokesman for the police said detectives were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths, which they said were being treated as “unexplained” according to local media.
Heena is believed to have been a student at South Gujarat University until 2002. “One elderly neighbour who did not want to be named said last night the police were knocking on doors telling everyone to get inside and close their windows because there had been a chemical incident,” one newspaper reported.
The neighbours said, “They were a lovely family. The kids used to run around and play outside, always very happy. My wife is very upset. It’s heartbreaking. The mother worked in a laboratory.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said that post mortem examinations were likely to take place next week. A home office pathologist was expected to carry out postmortem examinations on the dead family and an inquest opened and adjourned next week.
The police spokesman said that the family’s immediate relatives had been informed of the tragedy. It wasn’t clear whether Solanki’s parents-in-law, Chaganlal , 71, and Kalavati, 61, were at home at the time of the deaths.
