A woman and her son who were found with multiple cut injuries at their residence in Mattannur, in Kerala's Kannur district, died while undergoing treatment at a hospital, police said on Tuesday, news agency ANI reported, citing the Kannur City Police Commissioner.

Source: ANI via Daily Prabhat

The deceased were identified as Jyothi, 56, and her son Naveen Krishnan, 22, residents of Nandanam House on Lions Club Road in Mattannur. Both were found with severe injuries in an upstairs room on the second floor of the house.

Jyothi's husband, a retired Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) employee, had gone to a temple on Tuesday morning. When he returned home at around 9.30 a.m., he found the two lying injured in the upstairs room and rushed them to a hospital in Mattannur, where they later succumbed to their injuries, ANI reported. An early report in The Hindu also said the two were found seriously injured at the house on Tuesday morning.

Source: The Hindu via Daily8

Jyothi was a retired headmistress of CH Mohammed Koya Memorial School in Thillankeri, while Naveen Krishnan was preparing for Public Service Commission (PSC) examinations from home, according to the ANI report.

Police suspect that a dispute between the mother and son may have led to the incident. Investigators have found no apparent signs of an outsider entering the house, and the preliminary suspicion is that the son killed his mother before taking his own life, police said. This remains a preliminary suspicion and has not been established; further details are awaited as the investigation continues.