Hyderabad: Woman poisons disabled children, ends her life
Locals said that there were no major issues in the family.
Visakhapatnam: A woman gave poison to her two disabled children and then killed herself at a temple in Prahaladapuram on Sunday. Police is trying to establish why she committed suicide.
The victims were identified as B. Anitha, 42, and her children Ramya Sri, nine and Uma Mahesh, six, They were residents of Bharatnagar Colony in Prahaladapuram.
Her husband B. Satyanarayana works in a pharma company at Pydi Bheemavaram of Srikakulam district. He told the police that he found them dead in Nukalamma temple when he came on Sunday.
According to a Pendurthi police official, the woman might have taken the extreme step out of frustration as her two children were speech and hearing challenged. Their financial condition was bad. The police has not come to conclusion in the case. They would decide on further investigation based on the post-mortem report.
Locals said that there were no major issues in the family. They said Anitha mostly spent her time at the Nukalamma temple praying for her children. Police suspects that poverty may have driven her to take the drastic step.