India, March 9 -- A 20-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday in Haridwar for allegedly killing her six-month-old twin daughters because they cried continuously, police said.

The accused, Shivangi Saklani, told the police that her twin daughters' constant crying deprived her of rest. She allegedly first tried to silence them with a quilt, and when they continued to cry, she strangled them with a scarf, Haridwar senior superintendent of police (SP) Pramendra Dobhal said.

Shivangi took her twin daughters to a hospital on March 6, claiming they were unwell. The doctors declared them dead on arrival. The following day, the twins' father, Mahesh, filed a complaint at the Jwalapur police station, expressing suspicion about his daughters' death...