Acid Burning: Family of 4 attacked in their sleep

ROHELA WALI: A man threw acid on his sister, her husband and their daughter on Tuesday. According to police officials, Moza Chit Kalso resident Shahna wed Busti Allah Yar resident Muhammad Zafar Mandhera seven years ago. The couple had a six-year-old daughter Sonia and five-month-old son Yousuf. On Tuesday, Zafar, his wife and his children were asleep, when Shahna’s brothers Khizr, Kausar and Safdar Mohana broke into her house and threw acid on the family. Police said that the brothers had a long standing enmity with their brother-in-law. The family has been admitted to Nishtar Hospital and are in critical condition. Rohela Wali police have arrested the accused and registered a case.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 28^th, 2011.