Mother killed, body left with two toddlers, one dies of cold in Punjab

Second child has been taken to hospital in critical condition

In a chilling series of events, unidentified assailants first killed a woman and then threw the body along with her two children in extreme cold weather that killed one of the toddlers in Punjab.

Police said bodies of the woman and child were recovered from Malianwala village near Daska Tehsil – the jurisdiction of Bambanwala Police Station. They said the other child was taken to the Civil Hospital Daska in critical condition on Sunday, Express News reported.

Two missing children found dead in stream

Preliminary police investigation suggested that the attackers had killed the woman after getting her thumb impression supposedly on official papers due to ink marks found on one of her thumbs.

They later left the two children on their own with the body of their mother.

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Police have launched the further investigations after gathering evidences from the crime scene.