LAHORE, April 12: A woman committed suicide with her two children by throwing herself in front of a train in Naseerabad area of the city on Saturday.

Police said Ms Bushra, 30, carried a bag which contained a suicide note. Reading from the note, a police official said Ms Bushra, wife of a welder, had committed suicide because of poverty.

The woman appeared on the main railway line along with her two children at around 12.20pm when a train coming from the Cantonment station was approaching there.

“Despite an alarm raised by shopkeepers and some passers-by, she threw herself on to the track,” rickshaw driver Rashid Naseer, who witnessed the incident, told Dawn.

He said Ms Bushra covered the eyes of her son and daughter with her hands before taking the leap.

Police said the woman, wife of Mohammad Ramzan, came from Mecca Colony, Gulberg-III.

The children were identified as Zubair, 5, and Saima, 3.

When the news was broken to Ramzan, he went into a state of shock and was hospitalised.

A rescue 1122 official, while quoting the note, said the woman had termed poverty the main cause of her suicide decision and requested that if any of her children survived during the attempt, he or she be handed over to her parents.

She said she was doing it on her own and no one should be held responsible for the deaths. She wished that she should be laid to rest near the grave of her sister Sumera.