A woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well after throwing her three minor children in the well in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district, police said on Tuesday.

The woman and her husband, a daily wager, had a quarrel over some domestic matter on Monday night, the police said.

She allegedly threw her one-year-old twin sons and three-year-old daughter in the well before she jumped into it late on Monday night, a police officer said, quoting preliminary investigation report.

All the four bodies were recovered from the well at Ichadih village under Kuchai police station on Tuesday morning, the Officer-in-Charge of Kuchai police station, Uday Gupta said.  

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