Man arrested for killing his three children

Suspect caught on Rohri Junction while heading to Karachi via train

RAWALPINDI: A man who allegedly suffocated his three children to death in Dhera Muslim suburb of Rawalpindi was arrested from Rohri Junction in Sindh on Saturday.

Railway police officials said that the father of five, Noor Muhammad, was fleeing to Karachi, where he worked, after committing the offence.

In a confessional video recorded in the Railways police lock-up, the father admitted murdering his three children, including two daughters and a son, by locking them up in a steel trunk filled with blankets and leaving them to die of suffocation.

Mother of the deceased children, Yasmin, had told the Jatli police that her husband had killed the children, whereas he had earlier tried to kill her too by putting a plastic shopping bag on her head and tying it up when he had come home for Eid holidays this year. She told the police that besides this he had tried to kill her in an earlier incident too.

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The police learnt that on June 26, all five children of Noor Muhammad, including two sons and three daughters, were staying with him as the suspect's wife had left the house after a fight.

When two of the daughters, Kanza and Nimra woke up, they found their siblings including Usman, Hammad, and Alisha missing while their father had left for Karachi.

The survivors continued searching for the missing victims and later in the evening found their bodies inside the trunk.

After registration of the case, the Rawalpindi police issued an alert against the suspect and he was later apprehended from Rohri Junction in Sukkur.

Saddar SP Ziauddin confirmed Noor Muhammad's arrest while talking to The Express Tribune on Saturday.

He informed that a police team has been sent to Sukkur where the suspect would be handed over to them after legal formalities.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 28^th, 2020.