SC police: Mom killed children before sinking car

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina authorities say a mother
who claimed her children drowned when their car careened into a
river has been charged with murder after confessing to suffocating
the toddlers and then faking the accident.

Sheriff Larry Williams said Tuesday that 29-year-old Shaquan
Duley told police she was distraught after a dispute with her own
mother and killed her children by putting her hand over their
mouths. He says Duley then strapped the children into her car and
drove it into a river Monday morning.

Duley is to be arraigned Wednesday.

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