In Russia, a woman from Tajikistan threw her children from the 16th floor

After that, she also jumped and took her own life.

According to local media, on February 2 in the village of Novogorelovo in the Lomonosov district of the Leningrad region, a 23-year-old native of Tajikistan threw her children, born in 2024 and 2025, one by one from a shared balcony on the 16th floor. After that, she jumped herself.

The children miraculously survived. They were saved by falling into a snowdrift. The older girl has bruises on her jaw and red spots, while the younger one has fractures in her arms and legs. The mother, however, died at the scene.

According to the regional office of the Investigative Committee of the Leningrad region, a criminal case has been initiated under the article “Attempted murder of two minor children.” An investigation is underway, and further details are being clarified.

According to media reports, a month and a half before the tragedy, the native of Tajikistan became worried about her older daughter, who at one and a half years old was not speaking. The mother began watching videos about autistic children on the internet and became convinced that her child had the same diagnosis. Against this background, the woman began to experience mental disorders, started “hearing voices in her head,” and fell into depression.

The family lived in their own well-equipped two-room apartment on the second floor of a multi-story building. The tragedy occurred when the father had not yet returned home from his night shift, and the children’s grandmother had gone to work. The grandfather was sound asleep in another room. Taking advantage of the situation, the young mother went up with the children to the shared balcony on the 16th floor.

A neighbor raised the alarm after seeing a familiar stroller near the entrance and called the grandfather. Woken by the call, the man went downstairs and discovered a horrific scene: his daughter-in-law was lying under a blanket.

The woman’s body has been prepared for repatriation, and the family intends to send it to Tajikistan for burial.