New Delhi, March 12 -- Four minors aged between five months and seven years were found dead in a well on Thursday, while their mother who is suspected to have thrown them into the water body, was found hanging at her home in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, police said on Thursday.

Prima facie it appears that the woman, Savita Lodhi (30), threw her four daughters into the well and later hanged herself at her house in Khamaria village, about 50km from the district headquarters, City Superintendent of Police (CSP) Lalit Kashyap said, reported news agency PTI.

The woman, aged 28-years-old, used to live with her father-in-law and her younger sister.

According to a report by HT, the family had gone to sleep after dinner on Wednesday night (...