Young star of hit US sitcom takes his own life Hindu faithful flock to worship eight-limbed boy

SAWYER Sweeten, known for his role as one of twin sons in the US sitcom Everybody

Loves Raymond, committed suicide on Thursday, aged 19, US media reported.

“This morning a terrible family tragedy has occurred,” Sweeten’s sister Madylin said in a statement, according to showbiz publication

Variety . “Our beloved brother, son and friend, Sawyer Sweeten, took his own life.

“He was weeks away from his 20th birthday.” Sweeten was reported to have shot himself while visiting family in Texas.

He played a character named Geoffrey Barone on the 1996-2005 hit Raymond, acting alongside his real-life twin brother, Sullivan, and sister Madylin.

“We beg of you to reach out to the ones you love,” Madylin added. – AFP DEVOTEES are flocking to a remote Indian town to worship an eight-limbed baby as the reincarnation of a Hindu god.

The boy is a conjoined twin with separate hips and legs, a fused chest and a single head, but to increasing numbers of Hindu worshippers, he is the reincarnation of Lord Ganesh, the elephant-headed deity.

Hindus worship Ganesh as the “remover of obstacles” and pray to him at the outset of any new venture.

Devotee Kuntalesh Pandey travelled over 100km to see the unnamed baby in Jharkhand’s Giridih district.

“When a friend sent me a picture I wrote it off as Photoshopped but when he confirmed it is real I came to see the baby straight away,” Pandey said. – The Telegraph