SHEIKHUPURA, June 3: Domestic violence and abject poverty drove Farzana to jump into the QB canal on Saturday, police quoted her statement which she gave to police on Sunday.

Bhekhi police registered a murder and attempt to suicide case against her. Farzana with her three children jumped into the canal but policemen, rescued the woman alive and fished out the body of one of her three children.

Police learnt from Asif, a farmer who witnessed the deadly bid of the woman, that Farzana from Tani Chak, Nankana-Sahib, came to the canal with her children, Misbah, eight, Arslan, six, and Javeria, one-and-a-half-year-old. First of all she threw Misbah and Arslan into the water and later jumped into the canal with Javeria.

Asif immediately informed police who rescued the woman alive and fished out the body of Javeria. Divers were searching for the bodies of Misbah and Arslan. Farzana was admitted to the Hajra Memorial Hospital unconscious. She came to conscious on Sunday told police she married Hafizullah from Tani Chak 10 years ago.

Her husband, a driver by occupation but remained unemployed most of the time, used to quarrel with her. On the day of the incident, her husband quarrelled with her which enraged her to the extent that she decided to kill herself as well as her children.