Mum killed four babies

A JAPANESE mother drowned four of her newborn babies in concrete-filled buckets and kept them in a closet for 20 years.

The Sun reports, Mayumi Saito, 53, from the city of Neyagawa, confessed her grim crime to cops because she could no longer handle the guilt.

Human remains were found in four buckets in her flat, an Osaka police official said. Ms Saito said she hid the bodies between 1992 and 1997 because she was too poor to raise the children.