Bengaluru, July 13 -- A 40-year-old Russian woman and her two daughters, aged six and four, were found inside a cave in the Ramateertha hills in Gokarna, where she is believed to have resided for at least one week in the search of "spiritual peace", police officials said on Saturday.

The woman, identified as Nina Kutina alias Mohi, came to India on a business visa which expired in 2017, police officials said.

It was during a routine patrol on Friday, following a recent landslide that Circle Police Inspector Sridhar and his team spotted clothes hanging outside the cave. The officers made their way through the thick shrubs of Ramatirtha Hill and found Mohi and her two children in the cave.

"Our patrolling team spotted saree and other clo...