A 45-year-old man, who was on the run for the last five days after allegedly injuring his wife by stabbing her, tried to shoot himself dead at his residence in Dombivli of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.

The man, Somnath Devkar, who suffered serious injuries in the suicide attempt, was rushed to a local hospital, where he is being treated, senior inspector at Ram Nagar police station Sachin Sandbhor said.