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

Not only in Nepal bro .....with the advent of economy downturn ....i have heard so far three case of people killing their family members and finally killing themselves even here in United states ...the last i read in the USA today was a couple of month ago

Oh man....that is the most disturbing and depressing thing story to hear....their situation must have been that terrible in order for the mother to do that...maybe she could not bear to see her daughters suffering anymore.............my heart really goes out to people like that....makes u realise how lucky we are to have the basic necessaties never mind all the unnecessary things.....



- Chakra