Bihar, India: A woman killed her three daughters aged between three and eight before committing suicide as she was tired of the constant abuse at the hands of her in-laws for having given birth to girls. The woman had five daughters and no son.
The incident took place in Gaya when the woman's husband was away.
According to police, she served poison-laced food to her five daughters and before consuming it herself.
They were immediately taken to the local hospital by their relatives.
The woman and the two children died the same evening, the third daughter died next evening. The other two daughters survived as they didn't eat the poison-laced food.
"We have registered a case and are conducting raids to arrest the woman’s in-laws who forced her to commit suicide along with [killing] her little daughters,” local police official Vikrama Singh said.