India, April 7 -- A 30-year-old woman allegedly murdered her two-year-old daughter in a fit of rage and attempted suicide after an argument with her husband at Surya Vihar in Gurugram's Sector 9 on Monday, police said on Tuesday.

Investigators said the murder came to light when the woman's 31-year-old husband returned home from work in the evening and found her lying in a pool of blood on the floor and his daughter unresponsive.

A police officer said that the two were rushed to the Civil Hospital in Sector 10, where doctors declared the girl dead. "The woman had inflicted severe injuries on her neck by attempting to slit it with a scissors. Looking at her condition, doctors referred her to a private hospital," he said.

He said that the...