MENTALLY UNSTABLE WOMAN KILLS CHILDREN
Lucknow | November 28, 2006 1:38:52 PM IST
A mentally unstable woman today set afire her three children here early today.
Police said one of the children survived with serious burn injuries while two others dies
before help could arrive.
A resident of Barha railway colony in Alambah area, Nirmala Chaurasia locked her children
aged 6, 4 and one years respectively in a room and set it afire using wood and woolen clothes.
Shaili (4) and Mukka (1) died while Shailu (6) was rushed to a local hospital with serious
burns.
The incident took place when Nirmala's husband Mansharam left for work in the wee hours. The
couple's eldest child Divya (12) managed to escape and raised an alarm.
Nirmala was arrested.