Woman Sets Kids On Fire

Miffed over not being able to visit her mother's home, a 25-year-old woman in Hamirpur district set herself and her two children ablaze, police said this morning.

A woman and her four-year-old daughter died after she allegedly set herself and three children afire in Rampara village in the district, police said on Friday.The incident took place on Thursday night when Laxmi Sarvaiya in her early 30s, doused herself and her three children Pooja (8), Sarsawati (4) and Kuldeep (3) with kerosene and set fire, they...

Miffed over not being able to visit her mother's home, a 25-year-old woman in Hamirpur district set herself and her two children ablaze, police said this morning.

A woman and her four-year-old daughter died after she allegedly set herself and three children afire in Rampara village in the district, police said on Friday.The incident took place on Thursday night when Laxmi Sarvaiya in her early 30s, doused herself and her three children Pooja (8), Sarsawati (4) and Kuldeep (3) with kerosene and set fire, they...