India, March 28 -- Three children were found dead in suspicious circumstances on Friday morning and their mother is battling for life in the hospital after they ate curd rice laced with poison the previous night in Telangana's Sangareddy district, the police said.

The incident was reported from Raghavendra Colony in Ameenpur, on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

"The mother has been admitted to the local hospital and her condition is critical but stable at present," Ameenpur police inspector P Naresh said.

Naresh said he received a call early in the morning from the family's neighbours about the incident. "When we went there, we found the children - two sons aged 12 years and eight years, and a 10-year-old daughter, lying dead on the beds wi...