Stabbing spree: Suspect handed over to Morgah police
The teenager was reportedly picked up from Kotha Kallan
It may be recalled that an unknown person has so far attacked 10 women with a knife, killing a nurse of the FFH on August 7th. PHOTO: REUTERS
RAWALPINDI:
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) here on Monday handed over a knife-wielding teenager to Morgah police on suspicion of being involved in stabbing women in the area.
The teenager was reportedly picked up from Kotha Kallan in connection with fatal knife attacks on girls and women in several areas of Morgah in the recent days.
The police would soon take him to the hospital for his psychological evaluation by a psychiatrist, said CPO Israr Ahmed Abbasi.
He said that the CTD had interrogated the suspected knife wielder Muhammad Ali, 19, for six days and the suspect had “confessed his crime”.
The CPO noted that Ali was a psychopath and was involved in attacking girls with a knife.
Two aunts of Ali with whom he had been staying made him a mental patient by narrating before him stories of torture on his real mother by his father, Abbasi stated.
In the meantime, the investigators took Ali to the Fauji Foundation Hospital where nurse Iram Shahzadi was undergoing treatment after she was attacked by an unidentified man with a knife.
The police said the nurse could not identify the arrested man as she did not see his face.
A police officer said Samar Razzaq who was stabbed and admitted in the DHQ hospital also could not identify Ali as the attacker.
It may be recalled that an unknown person has so far attacked 10 women with a knife, killing a nurse of the FFH on August 7th.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 16th, 2016.
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) here on Monday handed over a knife-wielding teenager to Morgah police on suspicion of being involved in stabbing women in the area.
The teenager was reportedly picked up from Kotha Kallan in connection with fatal knife attacks on girls and women in several areas of Morgah in the recent days.
The police would soon take him to the hospital for his psychological evaluation by a psychiatrist, said CPO Israr Ahmed Abbasi.
He said that the CTD had interrogated the suspected knife wielder Muhammad Ali, 19, for six days and the suspect had “confessed his crime”.
The CPO noted that Ali was a psychopath and was involved in attacking girls with a knife.
Two aunts of Ali with whom he had been staying made him a mental patient by narrating before him stories of torture on his real mother by his father, Abbasi stated.
In the meantime, the investigators took Ali to the Fauji Foundation Hospital where nurse Iram Shahzadi was undergoing treatment after she was attacked by an unidentified man with a knife.
The police said the nurse could not identify the arrested man as she did not see his face.
A police officer said Samar Razzaq who was stabbed and admitted in the DHQ hospital also could not identify Ali as the attacker.
It may be recalled that an unknown person has so far attacked 10 women with a knife, killing a nurse of the FFH on August 7th.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 16th, 2016.