Woman, two daughters allegedly consume poison, die in hosp
KANPUR, April 29 -- A 33-year-old divorced woman allegedly consumed poison with her daughters aged seven and five, at her home in Kanpur on Tuesday, killing all three, police said.
The three were rushed to a government medical facility in Sarsaul before being transferred to LLR hospital, where doctors declared them dead. The bodies have been sent for postmortem examination.
The woman had returned to her parents' home in Najafgarh village under Maharajpur police area three years ago following a panchayat-mediated divorce from her husband, a Karhal resident in Mainpuri district.
Her brother told police she had abandoned the marital home five years earlier after sustained domestic violence. The divorce was formalised three years prior.
Since then, she had been supporting her daughters through daily wage labour.
The deceased woman's father works at a textile unit in Gujarat, reportedly away at the time of the incident.
The family has alleged that emergency response services failed them.
According to her brother, multiple calls to the Dial-108 ambulance helpline went unanswered. A local resident transported the three to a community health centre, from where doctors again made several attempts to call the helpline number before an ambulance arrived nearly an hour later.
"Had they reached hospital in time, perhaps they could have been saved," a family member said.
Satyajit Gupta, DCP (east), said Maharajpur police were informed by LLR hospital at 11 am. Officers visited the scene afterward.
The cause of the alleged suicide remains under investigation. No motive has been established yet, he added....
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