Deranged mother kills 4 daughters in Quetta

Maryam also tried to commit suicide by jumping into a water tank after pushing minor daughters in it

QUETTA: A deranged mother on Thursday killed her four minor daughters by pushing them into a water tank before attempting to commit suicide in a suburban area of Balochistan’s provincial capital.

According to police, the incident took place in the afternoon near the city’s Smungali Road.



“A mentally unstable woman, Maryam, took her four girls to a water tank inside her house and pushed them into the water,” said an official while talking to The Express Tribune.

“After pushing the girls, the woman also jumped into the tank filled with four-feet of water, apparently to commit suicide but she survived,” he added. According to the victims’ father Muhammad Khan, the girls’ grandmother had gone to visit a doctor when his wife committed the crime. “My wife has been mentally ill,” he added.

Later, police and the rescue workers retrieved the dead bodies of the minor kids and rushed them to the Civil Hospital Quetta. The mother was also shifted to the facility for medical treatment.



The victims – identified as Zakiya, 10, Farzana, 8, Parwana, 6, and Yaseemen, 2 –apparently drowned to death. Doctors said clothes of the girls and their mother were wet when they were brought in. “During examination, I could not see torture scars on the girl’s bodies. They appeared to have instantly died after they were pushed into the tank,” said the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Naeem Durrani

According to police officials, the mother’s psychological examination would be carried out to ascertain whether or not she is really plagued with mental problems.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 6^th, 2016.