Women kills self and two year old daughter

Statesman News Service

MALDA, Dec 13: Shiuli Mandal (23) committed suicide along with her two year old daughter by jumping in front of a train close to Chamagram railway station near Farakka Barrage last evening, Malda GRP said today. The railway driver of Balurghat bound train reported the incident to the Malda town station manager last evening. “The driver told authorities that one woman jumped onto the track just before the engine”, said Mr. S Das Gupta, the Malda GRP IC. The locals found the wounded woman on the railway track and brought her to Malda district hospital where she was succumbed to her injuries. On receiving information the GRP started a search operation at Chamagram area where they could not trace the body of Shiuli, but recovered the body her two-year-old baby. Later they came to know that the mother died in Malda district hospital.The Malda GRP registered the case of the baby and after inquest the body was sent for postmortem. While, the English Bazaar police station registered the case of her mother Shiuli. Shiuli was a resident under Baishnabnagar police station. No complaints have been lodged there in this connection till now.