MADHEPURA, Feb. 24 -- In a heart-wrenching spectacle, two children, 2 and 3 years old, were found sitting beside the body of their mother Bihar's Madhepura railway station on Tuesday morning. Unaware that she was dead, they were trying to wake her up before the Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel spotted them.

The GRP later found that a man left his dead wife and two little girls at the railway station late on Monday night.

"We found the babies crying while sitting by the woman lying on the RCC bench and when we approached we found the children were crying beside their mother who was already dead," a GRP official said, adding, "The children told the names of their mother and father as Kajal and Mohammad Murshid respectively, resid...