The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Mymensingh

Mother of six children Aklima Begum in her late 20s could no longer bear the burden. Tormented by poverty and miseries she took the extreme course - committed suicide by hanging after drowning three of the children in the pond yesterday.

Officer-in-charge of Phulbari thana Abul Kashem quoting Daulat Mia, husband of Aklima, said pale and broken health she went to her father' s home with all the children in neighbouring Titpur village on Saturday last.

She had no square meals for the children or the solace either in the home of her peasant father. Distressed and desperate she took her three daughters Tanjima (7), Khadiza (5) and Liza (3) to the pond and drowned them at about 11 am.

Bewildered by her own deed Aklima soon hanged herself with her saree from the nearby tree.