Triple murder: Man shoots wife and mother-in-law, infant killed in fall

Man had a quarrel with mother-in-law over payment of some land

MULTAN:

A man shot and killed his wife and mother-in-law over property payment on Friday evening.

According to police officials, a 20-day-old baby boy was also suffocated in the encounter after his mother’s body fell on him.

Sher Shah Mills Phatak Ghausia Busti resident Munir Ahmed quarrelled with his mother-in-law over the payment of some land and his wife, who had recently given birth to their son, tried to intervene.

On Friday evening, Munir Ahmed went to his in-laws house and after a quarrel opened fire on his mother-in-law Razia Bibi and wife Shumaila and fled the scene. Ghausia Busti residents called the police and when they reached the scene Shumaila’s son Naseer had also died from suffocation.  Police officials shifted the bodies to Nishtar Hospital for an autopsy.

“We are waiting on the results of the post mortem but a search team is already on the search for Munir Ahmed and we have taken his brother in for questioning regarding his whereabouts,” said Station House Officer (SHO) Azad Shams.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2011.