ABBOTTABAD July 6: A woman allegedly poisoned her three children to death on Saturday after a clash with her husband at village Malkot 44 kilometres from Abbottabad.

Balakot police claimed that during preliminary investigations the woman had confessed to the killings.

Her husband, Mehmood, said that he received information that his son Hashim Khan, 7, had died after taking the breakfast and that the condition of his other children – Sameer Khan ,4, and Shamim Bibi ,3, – was critical. He said that the two died while being shifted to hospital.

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