A 50-year-old man allegedly killed his wife in the early hours of Friday in Maharashtra`s Nagpur district as he had not received money from her parents to repay loans taken to buy trucks, a police official said.

The man killed his 40-year-old wife in their rented house in Navneet Nagar in Wadi area when their daughter had gone for a police recruitment drive and their son was at a relative`s place, he said.