PAKISTAN: Man Kills Wife, Daughter & Niece on Suspicion of Loose Character

A man killed his wife, daughter, and niece on suspicion of loose character in the Surjani Town police limits.

The bullet-riddled bodies of Wazeeraan Bibi, 40, her daughter Asma, 17, and niece, Asiya, 18, bearing marks of physical torture, were found from Surjani Town police limits. The SHO Surjani Town, Mohammed Ghayoor, said that the incident was reported in a house situated near a Buffalo stockyard in Abdul Rahim Goth of Surjani Town and the triple murder was committed by Abdul Rasheed.

According to investigators, women’s screams were heard from Rasheed’s house around 9:30 am Sunday morning. Later, they heard gunfire and then accused Abdul Rasheed fleeing.

The residents of the neighbourhood called the police who entered the house, found the bodies of Wazeeran, Asma and Asiya, and shifted them to a hospital. In the meantime, Wazeeran’s young son, Qasim, informed his paternal uncle, Manzoor Ahmed, about the murders that Rashid had committed. Ahmed told the police that his brother had a criminal record and use to beat his wife and daughter, accusing them of illicit relations with other men.

Two children recovered: The Motorway Police N-5 South Zone foiled a kidnapping bid and recovered two children from a bus coming from Muzaffarabad to Karachi and arrested one accused.

The Motorway Police said that they received a call from a bus driver that one suspect was travelling along with two unconscious children in a bus (LWC-1444), and it seemed that the children had been abducted by the suspect.

The bus was intercepted and the motorway police recovered 13-year-old Fayaz Ahmed and eight-year-old Mohammed Qasim as well as accused Naeemullah. The accused, who is from Mianwali, confessed that he had kidnapped the boys from Lahore to use them for begging or other purposes. He was handed over to the local police of Karachi for investigation. The families of the abducted children were contacted who told the Motorway Police that the children were missing since Saturday night.
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