PATNA, April 28 -- A 30-year-old woman and her two little children were allegedly murdered on Tuesday in a village under the Kanti police station area of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said. The murders, according to police, could be linked to an intra-family dispute.

The victims have been identified as Rita Devi, 30, her daughter Vaishnavi Kumari, 3, and seven-month-old son Rudra Kumar. Police said they were all strangled to death. She also had two older children who were not with her at the time of the incident.

Rita's husband, Santosh Kumar Sah (also known as Mithailal Sah), discovered the three dead and tied with a rope made of clothes when he returned at 3 a.m. and found the house locked from the outside. Muzaffarpur Rural SP...