In Saratov, a woman threw two daughters off the fourth floor and then tried to commit suicide. On Saturday, October 17, REN TV reports.
According to the TV channel, the incident took place in one of the houses located on the Novoastrakhanskoye highway of the city.
After falling from a height, the sisters survived, but were seriously injured. The condition of a five-year-old girl is assessed as extremely grave; her older sister, 8, is in grave condition.
The press service of the regional prosecutor’s office confirmed the fact of the incident, specifying that the mother threw the girls from the third floor, and then stabbed herself in the chest.
“All three are hospitalized. On behalf of the regional prosecutor Sergei Filipenko, a check was started, the district prosecutor, the deputy regional prosecutor Andrei Kornovarov went to the scene, “RIA Novosti quotes the agency’s message.
At the moment, all the circumstances and reasons for what happened are being established.
The day before, the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region reported that a resident of Kirovgrad had killed her four-year-old daughter with a hammer, and then tried to commit suicide. After the incident, the woman was hospitalized. The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case under clause “c” part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Murder of a minor”).