Woman kills husband, children, commits suicide

Accused cites husband's secret second marriage as reason for familicide

HYDERABAD:

In an incident of filicide and mariticide, a woman took the lives of her husband and four children before committing suicide. Meanwhile, tribal clashes claimed over a dozen lives in Sukkur and Larkana on Tuesday.

A woman in Khairpur, Aqsa, allegedly killed her four children and husband before taking her own life, incensed by her husband's secret second marriage. The bodies of Naveed Arain, son of Chamber of Commerce President Chaudhry Basheer Arain, along with the bodies of Ahmed Ali, Ali Sher, Moosa and Musawira, aged eight years and below, were found from their residence in the limits of A-Section police station. The bodies were later shifted to the Civil Hospital.

SSP Hassan Niazi stated that Aqsa added sedatives to food that she served to her husband and children, then gunned all of them down while they were unconscious. She later recorded an audio message to narrate the rationale of the homicides, before committing suicide. In the audio, Aqsa claimed that her husband had secretly married another woman, to her utter consternation.

Tribal clashes

Three milkmen, Aslam, Ayub, and Rano Dhundho, were shot dead in Ghotki, due to reported enmity between the Dhundho and Shar communities. The bereaved family blocked the National highway in protest. DSP Abdul Soomro later negotiated with the protesters and assured them of the culprits' arrest, after which they dispersed.

Separately, in continuity of Monday's killings in the Rustam area of Shikarpur, three more men were gunned down in two attacks, due to an ongoing vendetta between the Mahars and Jatois.

Reportedly, armed men kidnapped Nooral Garananai Jatoi and his son Ameer, killing them after subjecting them to torture. The bodies were later thrown outside the village Jummo Mahar. In vengeance, armed men from the Jatoi side attacked a battery shop, shooting dead Javed Mahar.

Meanwhile, in Dadu, a tailor was shot dead in the Mallah Chowk area. In retaliation, relatives of the deceased, identified as Umar Panhwar, allegedly set aflame the house of Mashooq Korejo, uncle of the suspected killer. Police later registered an FIR of Panhwar's murder, nominating Mehboob, Mairaj, and Talib Korejo.

Further, the strangulated body of a young man, Abdullah Khoso, was found from a field in Shikarpur.