BUXAR, Jan. 15 -- A 26-year-old woman allegedly consumed pesticides along with her three children on Wednesday in Buxar district, police said.

One of the children died, while the condition of the woman and her two other children remains critical.

The incident took place at Rasen village under the Rajpur police station limits.

According to police, the woman was married to Rajkumar Chauhan alias Rajkumar Chaudhary of Rasen village in 2020. A son was born from the marriage, but Rajkumar died suddenly six months after the child's birth. Subsequently, at the insistence of Rajkumar's family, the woman married his younger brother Jitendra Chauhan alias Jitendra Chaudhary in 2021.

The couple had two children-a son and a daughter. In 2024, Jit...