Police said one of the robbers noticed that Anjum was trying to untie the ropes and shot him in the head, killing him on the spot. PHOTO: FILE
A woman, her daughter and son were shot dead in Yazman on Wednesday by robbers who had broken into their house.
Police said three men entered the house of Muhammad Rafique in Chak 114-DB and held up the family.
One of the robbers took Rafique’s wife Jameela Bibi, son Waheed Anjum and daughter Misbah Bibi into a room and tied them down. Rafique, his sister and brother-in-law were locked in another room.
Police said one of the robbers noticed that Anjum was trying to untie the ropes and shot him in the head, killing him on the spot. When his mother and sister starting screaming, they too were shot in the head, killing both on the spot.
The robbers fled the house. Police said they did not take anything from there.
Some neighbours informed the police, who sent the bodies to Yazman tehsil headquarters hospital for post-mortem examination.
An FIR was registered with Rafique as the complainant. He said they did not have any apparent enemies and that he was certain that the men had entered the house intending to rob them.
Police said they were looking for the assailants.
Body found at school
Elsewhere, the body of an unidentified man was recovered from Government Primary School in Kotla Nawab near Liaquatpur.
Assistant Sub Inspector Ziaur Rehman of Pakka Laraan police said the body, lying in the backyard, was discovered by a security guard who said he was taking a round of the building a day before the school was to reopen after winter holidays. He informed the police, who sent it for a post-mortem examination.
The ASI said that announcements were made from the neighbourhood mosque to seek help with the identification. He said no one had come forward yet with any information.
He said the man seemed to be in his 20s. He said he had a tattoo on the right wrist reading the names Ghulam Akbar and Sughraan.
He said the police had found a chain and an M-shape pendant on the body. He said there were bruises on the body suggesting that the man had been tortured.
He said the police were investigating the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2014.
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