SHEIKHPURA:A woman along with her two children jumped into the Bhakki Canal in Sheikhupura, ARY News reported on Thursday.

The woman, after being dejected over domestic issues, threw her two minor children into the Bhakki Canal in Sheikhupura and later jumped into it.

Rescue officials told the media that a diver team recovered the body of the minor boy and continued the search for the bodies of the woman and another child. Eyewitnesses said that the children aged between three to five years. They added that the woman threw her children and later jumped into the canal.

In 2021, a woman had jumped off from a six-storey building along with a minor girl in Karachi after it emerged that she was locked in a room by her family over drug-addiction.