Mumbai Beat

Woman, 2 children commit suicide

Namrata Prabhakar Nalavade 25 and her two children Prajakta 4 and Siddesh 2 received 100 per cent burns in their chawl residence No. 8 at Municipal Labour Camp on Mumbai Marathi Granthasangrahalaya Marg at 11.30 am.

Neighbours rushed the three to KEM hospital where they succumbed to their burns. Bhoiwada police are investigating the case and according to preliminary investigations, it was Namrata who set herself and her children on fire.

25-ft python caught in Kandivli

A large python was caught live in the premises of the Central Ordinance Depot COD at Kandivili on Sunday night, by the defence establishment8217;s night patrolling fire brigade staff. Three firemen of the COD fire brigade spotted the snake while on night patrol. Its tail was caught under the front wheels of a military truck and suffered slight injury. The fire brigade supervisor-incharge Subedar Bhomsingh Dhandu the nearly 25 feet snake weighing nearly 50 kg was caught with the helpof a rope. It was kept in a workshop shed for the night. It would be handed over to forest authorities, Dhandu said.