LUCKNOW, April 10 -- A 22-day-old infant died on Friday morning, hours after being found crying beside the blood-soaked body of his father in a house in Ayodhya district. Police suspect the child's mother first killed her husband and then died by suicide under a train.

Police said the infant had been left alone for several hours after his mother allegedly bludgeoned her husband to death with a hammer in their house in the Raunahi area, on Thursday evening, before heading for the railway tracks near Devarakot crossing, where she was later found dead.

Balwant Chaudhary, SP, Ayodhya rural, said, "We received information about the bodies of the husband and wife. It appears that the wife killed her husband and then jumped in front of a train...