RI woman commits suicide-murder

RI woman commits suicide-murder

MALAYSIA: An Indonesian woman stabbed her two-year-old daughter before killing herself, apparently because she was distraught that her Indian husband had not returned to Malaysia from his trip back home, reports said on Tuesday.

Reni Wahabi, 32, who had just given birth to a baby girl, had allegedly originally fed her toddler child insecticide before consuming the poison herself at a friend's home in the southern Seremban state.

However, she was believed to have stabbed her child to death after seeing the young girl suffering in pain from the effects of the poison, said Seremban acting police chief Mohamad Taib Latif.

"After the front door was broken down, we saw Reni and her two-year old child unconscious with foam coming out of their mouths, and their bodies were all bloated," an eye-witness told the Malay-language Berita Harian daily.

Neighbors found the four-day-old infant nearby, unharmed.

Reni's husband, an Indian national, was believed to have promised to return to Malaysia after he left for India in March following the expiry of his working permit. -- DPA