Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a woman allegedly killed her two children by pushing them into a well following a dispute with her husband in Kandhamal district of Odisha, police said on Saturday.
According to police, Bhagyalaxmi Patra, a resident of Raikia Block in the Kandhamal district left home with her five-year old son and 9-year-old daughter after having a quarrel with her husband M. Rajesh Patra on Friday afternoon.
According to sources, Bhagyalaxmi Patra had a quarrel with her husband M. Rajesh Patra over some unknown issues and left the house along with her two children.
On Saturday morning, when Rajesh searched for them, he found his wife near the well and was shocked to learn that Bhagyalaxmi pushed their two kids into the well. With the help of local fire service personnel, police have recovered the bodies from the well.
“We suspect that the woman had pushed the kids into the well. The woman, Bhagyalaxmi, has a minor injury on her leg but she is stable. This incident is the fallout of a family dispute. Further investigation is on,” sub-divisional police officer, G. Udayagiri, Tirupati Rao Patnaik said.
The police say that Rajesh was having an extra marital affair, over which, there were quarrels between the two.
