Four members of a family including three sisters and their brother were killed in the Dhok Kamal Deen area allegedly due to a marriage dispute on Sunday.
The fifth victim, who could have been the main target of the alleged assailant survived with critical injuries.
The nominated suspect had allegedly killed the family of his brother’s wife, Eraj. The victims included her three sisters Sabahat, Faiza, and Hira and brother, Haider, died on the spot.
Critically injured Eraj, in her statement to the police, narrated the incident and nominated her husband’s brother as the assailant.
The victims’ father, Muhammad Asif, told the police and the media that he was at work when the incident occurred. The aggrieved father added that he got the news of the incident on phone and rushed home to find the doors of his house open and bodies of his loved ones lying strewn on blood-stained floors.
Asif said that his daughter Eraj had married a man named Khurram in 2019.
He recalled that Khurram’s brother Ghulam Abbas had threatened Eraj of killing her family as he was against the free-will marriage. The father demanded the government to arrest the suspect at the earliest and bring him to justice.
Eraj and Khurram had solemnised free-will marriage in 2019. However, Khurram’s family never accepted Eraj and kept threatening her, till she moved back to her parents’ house demanding a divorce.
On Monday, Abbas, broke into the house of Eraj’s parents and opened fire killing her three sisters and a brother. Eraj survived the gunshots and was under treatment at hospital under critical condition.
The bodies were shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital where the autopsy was carried out while Eraj was shifted to Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) for treatment. After completion of the process, the bodies were handed over to the family.
Later, CPO Muhammad Ahsan Younus and Operations SSP visited the crime scene and directed the forensic experts to collect evidence.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 29th, 2020.
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