An American citizen in Tirana, who was a teacher in a private school suffocated his wife and two dogs inside a house in the capital and then hanged himself to death.

The horror event happened in Albania and the teacher was identified as Mathew James Werts.

He initially killed his wife, from Indonesia, Saragih Indah Lilis Sartika, then the dogs and after wrote a letter for his father, killed himself.

The couple lived in Albania since 2014 and the neighbours said that the wife did not go out.