A Texas mother accused of strangling her two young children told an emergency operator she killed them because they were autistic and she wanted "normal kids", according to a tape of a 911 call.
Police released the recording after Pakistani-born Saiqa Akhter was charged with one count of capital murder in the strangling of her five-year-old son, Zain Akhter, at the family's apartment on Monday night.
Police spokesman David Tull said another capital murder charge is pending in the slaying of her two-year-old daughter, Faryaal Akhter, who died on Tuesday night.
Police say the mother called emergency services after attacking the children.
In the recording, the woman identifies herself as Saiqa Akhter and repeatedly tells the operator she killed her two children, describing how she first tried to poison them, then later strangled them with some type of wire.
At one point during the recording, the woman hangs up and the dispatcher calls her back.
"I killed them. I killed both of them," she told the operator.
Later, she explained that both children were lying motionless on the bed in the master bedroom.
