UDAYPUR, Sept 25: Police have arrested a woman from Okhale VDC-3 of Udaypur district on the charge of killing her two children.
Sarita Magar, 28, has been detained by the police in connection with the alleged murder of her two children along with her husband, Yam Kumar Magar, 36, according to the District Police Office (DPO). Sarita's two children--four-year-old son Rusam and two-month-old daughter Soniya--were found murdered on Wednesday night at their home.
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Initial inquiries by the police has revealed that Sarita used sharp domestic weapon to kill her children while they were asleep.
According to the police, Sarita is mentally ill and loses her mental balance from time to time. On the day of the murder, she had tried first to kill her husband using the domestic weapon.
After the terrified husband ran away from the house, she killed her children, said the police. After the murder, Sarita left the house and was arrested while she was hiding. "We have already begun further investigation into the case," informed SP Tek Bahadur Gurung. Dead bodies of the children have been kept at Katari Hospital for post-mortem.
