Five killed in separate incidents in Abbottabad
At least five people were killed in three different domestic disputes in the Hazara division on Sunday, police said. In the Mannu Di Ban village within the remits of the Mirpur police station, Omer Daraz of Kohistan shot and killed Rashida Bibi for turning down his proposal. Rashida was already married to Hazrat Bilal.
When Bilal learnt that his wife had been killed, he chased Daraz and killed him.
Both bodies were shifted to the Ayub Medical Complex for an autopsy and other medico-legal formalities and later handed them over to their families. In the second incident, another woman was murdered for refusing a proposal. Thakra Sairian UC resident Murad Ayub wanted to marry Amina Bibi but her father refused the proposal and instead fixed her marriage with Zulfiqar Ayub, another resident of the village.
A month after her marriage, a distressed Murad barged into Amina’s house along with his friend and shot her dead before fleeing. The body was shifted to the hospital for post-mortem while police registered an FIR against two suspects and started an investigation.
In the third incident, two people, including a father and a son, were brutally murdered by their relatives over a land dispute. Beer police said that Shahzaman, Omer and Ramazan had allegedly attacked their uncle's family with axes and guns, brutally killing their cousin Waqar and uncle Zareem. Police booked seven people.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 13th, 2020.