Bargarh: In a highly tragic incident, a mother-son-daughter trio of a family ended lives by consuming poison, days after the woman's husband died at Masterpada under Sohela police limits in Bargarh district of Odisha.

The deceased have been identified as Kumudini Sahoo (50), her son Bansidhar Sahoo (25) and her daughter Subarna (23).

According to reports, Kumudini and her two children were under severe mental stress after the death of her husband Arjun Sahoo on September 6.

Unable to bear the trauma, the bereaved family members consumed pesticide to end their lives yesterday, villagers said.

On being informed, the police reached the spot and rushed the trio to Sohela Community Health Centre (CHC). They were later shifted to VIMSAR in Burla after their condition deteriorated.

Subarna died on the way to Burla while her brother Bansidhar breathed his last while being treated at the hospital, yesterday. Their mother died during treatment at the hospital, this morning.

A pall of gloom descended on the village after the demise of the three.