Woman, four sons ‘mysteriously’ found dead in Thatta

Police believe they consumed poison, while health officials claim they were strangled

HYDERABAD: A woman and her four young sons were found dead in a village in Thatta district on Monday. The police and health officials remained divided over the cause of their death.

The tragedy occurred at Columbia farms in Jhimpir, where the police initially claimed that the deceased Soomri Kohli, a 45-year-old widow, and her sons Tek, 13, Ashok, 10, Mukesh, 7, and Aakash, 6, had apparently consumed poison.

However, the medical team that examined the bodies for the postmortem at Civil Hospital Makli found marks of strangling on their necks.

According to the initial report issued by Dr Sikandar Shah, Dr Gianchand and others, all of the deceased were strangled to death and a poisonous substance was later poured on their mouths.



Jhimpir SHO Muhammad Ali Dhamrah, however, stated that they had found a bottle of pesticide at the crime scene, adding that it could be a case of suicide through the consumption of poison.

Hours before the doctors' report was revealed, Soomri's mother, Bano Kohli, claimed during a protest that some local influential people had killed the family.

"They earlier kidnapped three of our girls and now they have killed my daughter and her sons," she alleged, naming some people she believed were responsible for the act.

Acting Thatta SSP Suhai Aziz Talpur told the local media that she had assigned the inquest of the incident to DSP Asghar Jatt, who would submit the initial report within a day.

No case had been registered for the deaths at the time of filing of this report.