Woman kills daughter, attempts to commit suicide

A woman allegedly slit her three-year-old daughter's throat and then attempted to commit suicide here by slashing her wrist, police said Tuesday.

The 27-year-old woman, an engineering graduate, was undergoing treatment for psychiatric problems, they said. She allegedly slit her daughter's throat and then slashed her wrist falling unconscious, police said.

Her mother-in-law rushed them to the hospital where the doctors declared the child brought dead.

The woman is undergoing treatment, police said. Her husband, an engineer, is working in Chennai.