Bhopal, March 12 -- A 28-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district died by suicide after allegedly killing her four minor daughters by throwing them into a well, police said.

"The woman lived with her father-in-law and younger sister. On Wednesday night, after dinner, the family went to sleep. The next morning, her father-in-law noticed that she and the children were missing. Initially, the family assumed they had gone nearby, but when they did not return by afternoon, he alerted the villagers," police station in-charge Lokesh Patel said.

"The woman was later found hanging near agricultural land, and villagers discovered the bodies of the children in the well, located 500 metres away from the tree. The villagers informed the pol...