Six children under the age of ten died when their mother, who later tried to commit suicide, threw them into a well in western India.an event that was apparently triggered after an argument with her husband.
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The death of the children occurred on Monday in Mahad, in the Raigad district in the state of Maharashtra, when the mother threw her five daughters and a son into a well about six meters deep, according to local police reported to the Times of India newspaper.
“The children’s bodies were removed from the well at 10:00 p.m. (Monday) and were sent to a health center for autopsy,” police sources detailed, according to the Indian newspaper on Tuesday.
Although the motive for the crime is still unknown, “it is suspected that a dispute with her alcoholic husband led her to take this drastic step“Noted the Police, who added that the woman is at the police station” but is not in a position to reveal anything.
The 30-year-old mother also tried to end her life by jumping into the well, but was rescued. by some neighbors, who are traumatized by what happened, according to local sources to the same newspaper.
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suicide in india
Until March 2017, when a bill decriminalized suicide attempts, this practice was considered a criminal act in the Asian country, punishable by up to a year and a half in prison and a financial fine.
In 2020, more than 153,000 people committed suicide in India, almost 10 percent more than in 2019when some 139,000 suicides were recorded, according to data from the latest report issued by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasize that deaths by suicide never have a single trigger, but are the result of psychological, biological and social factors that have treatment.
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