HYDERABAD: Upset with the chronic illnesses of her two children, a house wife strangled them to death and attempted to end her life at Sanga Reddy on Friday.
The deceased were Rudransh (6) and Devansh (4), sons of bank employee Shiva Shankar, from Shanti Nagar, Sanga Reddy town.
According to Sanga Reddy police inspector B Ramesh, while Rudransh was suffering from chronic kidney ailments his younger brother was suffering from several other health complications.
“As both children were getting treatment at corporate hospitals in Hyderabad, the financial condition of the family deteriorated,” the inspector said.
On Friday afternoon, when Shankar was in office, his wife Jyothsna strangled their two sons at home and went to Mahbub Sagar lake in Sanga Reddy to commit suicide.
“Before jumping into the water, she sent a selfie video to her husband.
However, fishermen rescued Jyothsna and she was rushed to a nearby hospital,” the inspector said. Bodies of the two children were shifted for postmortem.
