Abject poverty leads woman to kill daughters, self

Abject poverty led a mother to strangle her two daughters to death before killing herself in Bajhang of far-western Nepal last week, reports say.

Jashuli Bista, 26, who was living an impoverished life in Sunkada VDC of the district on Friday, killed her daughters, four-year-old Ramkala and eight-month-old Ramita, before she hanged herself to death.

Far-western police chief DIG Prakash Kunwar said they found no other reason behind the killings other than poverty.

Bista had been raising her daughters all alone as her husband Min Bahadur Bishta had gone to India for work. nepalnews.com May 25 09