Woman jumps in to farm well in rural Bhavnagar with 5 children, 4 dead

Bhavnagar: Four children died of drowning in a well when here mother threw them in to it and also jumped herself with another of her girl child in Panch Pipla village under Alang police station area of Bhavnagar district, police said today.

The woman identified as one Geetaben (45), resident of nearby Zazmer village and her eldest daughter Dharmishtha ( 8) were somehow rescued while the other four children (3 son and a daughter) Akshita (7), Kuldeep (5), Kartiak (3), Rudra (One year and a half) could not be saved. She said that she had jumped in to the village due to financial problems and also due to seeing bad spirits.

PSI Alang C H Makwana today said that the woman and her husband were farm labourerers. They were extremely poor and also the woman did not look in sound mental health. She had left her house yesterday with all the five children saying that she was going to visit a temple and her mothers place.

She went near a farm well in Panch Pipala village which was around 30 km from her residence and after throwing the children in the well, herself jumped in to it in the evening. She and her eldest daughter were somehow rescued by villagers and police but the others could not be saved. The bodies have been fished out.

The PSI said that detailed investigation was on.

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