Four children were murdered by their parents over the weekend in the Dominican Republic, police said Monday in the Caribbean country, which has suffered a spate of such killings.

A 36-year-old woman living on the outskirts of the capital Santa Domingo killed her three children aged 7, 9 and 11 by poisoning their fruit juice on Sunday before taking her own life by ingesting the liquid, police said.

Officers found a handwritten note at the scene believed to have been left by the woman but have not disclosed the contents.

On the same day in the capital, a man was arrested on suspicion of suffocating his toddler son, aged 1 year and 8 months.

At least two other cases of suspected filicide — when a parent intentionally kills their child — have been reported on the island of nearly 11 millio

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