Bulandshahar (Uttar Pradesh): A woman committed suicide by setting herself on fire along with her two children in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahar district, police said on Tuesday.
After listening to the screaming of the children locals rushed to the spot, said police, adding that it was locals who informed the police about the incident.
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Being informed, police came for rescue but it was too late to save the minors.
However, police took the women who had major burn injuries to the hospital, but before they reached she died.
Meanwhile, police arrested the woman's husband who is working in Haryana's Rohtak, and came to visit his family amid the lockdown.
Police have sent the deceased bodies for postmortem.
According to police, detailed inquiries will be conducted in this regard, however, prima facie, this case seems to be of domestic violence.