Utter despair: Woman kills self, two children

Neighbours broke the door to rescue the three, but they had been burnt badly.

SARGODHA:
A woman killed her two children and committed suicide on Sunday following a quarrel with her husband.

Shagufta Bibi of Chak 86 North had locked herself and her two children Kinza, 2, and Faizan, 1, in a room and set self and her children on fire after dowsing their clothes with kerosene oil. Neighbours broke the door to rescue the three, but they had been burnt badly.


Faizan died on the spot. Shagufta and Kinza were taken to the district headquarters hospital where they also died.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 22nd, 2013.
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