Murder: Three of a family shot dead

The injured child is being treated at a hospital

MUZAFFARGARH:
Three family members were shot dead on Friday by unidentified men. Police identified the victims as Shazia, and he two step children Asif, 12, and Ayesha, 10. Another child was injured. Her husband Sarfaraz had settled in Beet Mir Hazar, Jatoi tehsil, after marrying Shazia two years ago. This was his second marriage and his four children – from his first wife – also used to live with him. Sarfaraz told police that two men he did not recognise had opened fire on the family shortly after he reached home after work Thursday night. The children and his wife died on the spot. The injured child is being treated at a hospital.


Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2012.