Elderly woman stabbed

Unidentified suspects murder 70-year-old living alone

KURIANWALA:

Unidentified suspects allegedly broke into a house and stabbed an elderly woman to death with a knife.

Police took the body into custody and started searching for the accused.

Police said 70-year-old Salma Begum lived alone in her house in Afghanabad 1 Street 10.

Unidentified suspects jumped over the wall of the house on Tuesday and stabbed her in the head with a knife. The attack was so severe that the woman died on the spot.

The victim’s neighbours reported the incident to police.

As soon as reports came in, police reached the scene and took the body of the deceased into custody, shifting it to the hospital for a post-mortem.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 31^st, 2023.