A woman in Kolkata,India threw her four-year-old daughter from the Howrah Bridge into the Hooghly river. River traffic police were still fishing for the girl's body who died after drowning into the river.
The mother of three, 35-year-old Anita Singh, was said to be mentally disturbed.
The incident took place around 6.30 pm following which the local people immediately rushed to the spot and prevented her from throwing her other two children into the river.
Anita was heading to her in-laws' place in Kolkata after spending a few days at her parent's place in Howrah with her three children.
She was accompanied by her three children, six-year-old Chandra Shekhar, four-year-old Visakha and two-year-old, Samar Bahadur.
She suddenly grabbed Visakha, lifted her by her arms and flung her over the rails into the river. She was about to then throw Samar Bahadur when pedestrians restrained her.
"We hadn't noticed her in the crowd till she threw a child into the river. The act was so sudden that no one could react. It was only when she tried to throw another child that we caught her," said Sonu, who along with Siddharth, saved Samar Bahadur.
The two then took Anita and the children to the police outpost on the bridge.
On interrogation, Anita confessed to having thrown her daughter into the river. Anita's mother told police that she left the house around 4 pm for her in-laws' house at Cossipore's Rustamjee Parsee Lane.
Family members revealed that she was a psychiatric patient and was still undergoing treatment. Anita's husband Rajnarayan Singh told to police that they had returned to Kolkata from Ajamgarh in Uttar Pradesh after 27 years.
Police still have no clue over why she suddenly reacted so violently. Anita has been arrested and charged with murder.
"We have been trying to find out from her why she committed the crime. But she seems mentally unstable and is unable to give a proper answer," Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ports, Anand Kumar, said.
According to a senior police official, the river traffic police was immediately mobilised to try and rescue Vishakha, but due to a high tide in the Hooghly, she could not be traced.
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