Covering tracks: ‘Family shot, then set on fire’

VEHARI: Adda Ghulam Shah Luddan police believe that the three family members who were thought to have been victims of a house fire were first shot and then the house was set on fire. This was stated by DPO Shakir Hussain who spoke with reporters on Friday. The police found empty rounds at the house and footprints that suggested that there was foul play involved. The charred bodies of a labourer, Allah Yar (35), his daughter Shahnaz Bibi (20) and his mother-in-law Gamaan Bibi (60) had been recovered from Yar’s house after neighbours alerted the police and rescue teams of a fire at his house.

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