Murder: Woman, son slaughtered

ATTOCK:

In a grisly incident, a woman and her son were slaughtered by unidentified persons in the Saddar police jurisdiction of Hasanabadal.

Shahnaz Bibi, a resident of Noorabad, lodged a case with the police stating that five armed people barged into their house and tied Nasir and his mother, Sakina Bibi, with a rope before slaughtering them with a dagger.

The complainant told the police that the attackers, who had locked her in a room before committing the crime, told her that they suffered a heavy loss in drug business after Nasir conspired against them.

The police registered a case and further investigation is under way.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 8^th, 2014.