NOVOSIBIRSK, April 23 (RIA Novosti) - A seven-year-old girl in southwest Siberia died after her mother threw her out of a fifth-floor window twice before jumping herself, police said on Wednesday.
After the first attempt to kill her daughter failed, the woman in Russia's Altai Republic "who went downstairs to the courtyard to discover the child was still alive, carried her back up to the apartment and threw her out of the window again, and then jumped out herself," a police spokesman said.
The girl died instantly while her mother was hospitalized, and now faces psychiatric tests.
An investigation is underway. The woman could face up to 20 years in jail, if found guilty of her daughter's murder, the spokesman added.
