THIS is the horror moment police officers found six dead children down a well after their mum allegedly threw them in during a row with her husband.
The tragic incident happened in Raigad, Maharashtra, India when all six children drowned before locals could pull them out.
The six children had already drowned[/caption]
Disturbing images show the desperate efforts to pull the children out of the water.
The children’s mum Runa Chikhuri Sahni, 30, allegedly threw them into the well on Monday afternoon before trying to jump in herself, NDTV reports.
However, she was spotted in time and rescued.
The five girls and a boy, aged between 18 months and 10 years were already dead, police said.
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The 30-year-old mum has been arrested on charges of murder, senior police officer Ashok Dudhe said.
The incident is alleged to have happened during the woman’s argument with her husband.
Meanwhile, a woman in the Sriramnagar Colony in Kondapur, has been arrested on suspicion of employing five men to gang-rape a woman she suspected her husband of having an affair with.
And earlier this month a teenage girl who reported being gang-raped to police was then raped again by a cop, in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, authorities said.
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