Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 30 -- A day after two siblings, aged five and three, were found dead in a water tub inside the bathroom of their rented home in Menonpara in Kerala's Palakkad district, their mother was arrested for murder, police said.

Jennifer Juliet (5) and her brother Robin Christopher (3) were found dead in the water tub around 10:30 am on Tuesday in Kozhinjampara.

The mother, Nivedya, had initially told the police that she was busy with work and that she found her children dead after she went inside the bathroom. The children's father, John Kumar, was out for work.

The police initially filed a case of unnatural death and conducted inquests and postmortems of the minor children. The police later took statements from local...