The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Panchagarh

An insane woman chopped to death her two minor children at Haradighi village in Tetulia upazila yesterday.

Locals said Chehari Begum, 35, hit her two children Dulal, 6, and Iti, 3, indiscriminately with a spade while feeding them in the morning, leaving them critically injured.

Hearing hue and cry by two children, neighbours rushed to the spot and rescued them.

Dulal and Iti died on the way to the Sadar Hospital.

Local people caught Chehari, wife of day labourer Tajmal of the village, and handed over her to police.

Victim's father and other inmates were not present at the house during the incident.