Police in Nairobi has launched investigations after a mother on Wednesday night committed suicide in Komarock estate, after poisoning her two children.

Jane Mwende Nguthu, 33, hanged herself with an iron box cable after the poisonous substance she also took failed to kill her.

In a police statement, police said they found a suicide note in the woman’s bedroom in which she claimed she was tired of being mistreated by her husband.

Her husband told the police that they had an altercation and hadn’t talked with each other for almost a day.

The two children, a boy aged seven years old and a 3-year-old girl, was rescued by her neighbours and rushed to Komarock Modern Hospital where they are admitted in serious condition.

Police are yet to establish what kind of poison the woman administered to her children.

The scene of the crime was visited by Kayole police officers who found the remains of the poisonous solution in the kitchen.