This Article is From Apr 14, 2012

Fed up with son's mental illness, woman kills kids, herself

Surat: Fed up with a prolonged mental illness of her son, a woman committed suicide in Surat after poisoning him and the younger sibling, police said today.

After poisoning Jainish, 6 and Prachi, two-and-a-half, Chetna Mangukia, wife of a diamond artisan, consumed poison and died late last night, police said.

According to the police, Jainish was mentally ill for quite some time, which caused a lot of stress to his mother.

The three were taken to local municipal hospital by the neighbours, where the son was declared dead upon arrival while the daughter and the mother were sent to a private hospital.

The girl died yesterday evening while the woman died later on the same night.

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