HYDERABAD: Unable to bear torture of her husband, a 32-year-old woman in Choutuppal killed herself after hanging her two minor daughters at their house on Thursday.
Her youngest daughter, aged three, who too was hanged, survived, police said.
Police said that T Umarani and her daughters Harshini,12, and Lasya, 8, died, while three-year-old Shainy survived holding on to a loft.
Umarani used a saree to hang her daughters Harshini and Lasya from the hook of a ceiling fan.
Similarly, she used another saree to hang herself and her youngest daughter.
While Umarani died, Shainy was found alive and crying for help. On hearing her cries, some locals came to their house and saw Shainy struggling for life
. They climbed the roof, broke the asbestos sheet and saved the girl. Umarani’s husband Venkatesh was sleeping outside the house when his wife hanged their daughters and killed herself. Police suspect that since Venkatesh used to thrash Umarani after getting drunk, she took the extreme step.
