Overview

• Authorities say the incident occurred early Monday in Kondamallepally in Telangana’s Nalgonda district.
• Police identified the woman as Kanchala Nagalaxmi, 27, and the children as Avantika, 9, and Bavan Sai, 7.
• Preliminary findings indicate the children were strangled and the mother later died by hanging, with autopsies pending at a government hospital.
• A case has been registered and investigators are looking into reports of family disputes, including an argument after which the husband left the house.
• The episode follows a similar Hyderabad case reported last week in which a woman allegedly killed her twin toddlers before dying by suicide.