A woman and her two children have died after she jumped from the 30th floor of an apartment building while holding her daughters, aged one and two, following a row with her boyfriend.

The father of the two girls, Carlos Pinto, 33, needed to be sedated after his partner Lucia Brum Padilla grabbed their two daughters and jumped off the balcony of their flat, killing herself and the girls.

Mr Pinto and Ms Padilla, 20, both from Uruguay, were living in the Chilean capital Santiago.