A policeman is believed to have shot his seven-year-old son dead before taking his own life with the gun in an incident at Jalan Widuri 1, Taman Sentosa Jaya, near Seremban, yesterday afternoon.

Seremban police chief ACP Mohd Said Ibrahim said they received an emergency call at 6.42pm informing that a 35-year-old local man and a boy were found dead in a Proton Wira car.