Driven by poverty, man kills three children, self

from The New Kerala


Raipur, Apparently crushed by acute poverty, a disabled man allegedly killed his three children before taking his own life in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh.

The children, including a girl, were poisoned and strangulated by their father Lalit Chaturvedi last night, police said adding he later jumped in front of a train near Joratarai village, about 95 km from here.

Chaturvedi apparently gave poison-laced bananas and `samosas' to his children. His other daughter, a five-year-old who was put on the railway track by her father, survived after she woke up before the train came.

Chaturvedi was working in a local company as a crane operator, but an accident two years ago left him disabled and without a job, police said. His eldest son was a tuberculosis patient.