KARACHI, Nov 17: A couple was found murdered in their house in Steel Town on Monday morning while their 11-month-old daughter who was left alive by the suspects later died of starvation.
The bodies were discovered by police on information provided by four suspects, who were arrested from Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Gulshan-i-Hadeed late Sunday night in connection with some armed robberies.
Police said that suspects Adnan, Mansoor and Asim were picked up from Gulistan-i-Jauhar on suspicion of their involvement in robberies. During interrogation, they disclosed that their fourth associate, Farhan had been in Aitekaf in Masjid-i-Bab-i-Rehmat. Police arrested Farhan, who confessed killing a family in Steel Town, during interrogation.
Police on Monday morning recovered the bodies of Zia Akhtar, 40, Shamim Akhtar, 35, and infant girl. Police said that head of the family was an assistant manager in the industrial relations department of the Pakistan Steel Mills.
TPO Bin Qasim, Kamran Fazal, told Dawn that none of the valuables were seen disturbed in the house. The bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for postmortem examination. Doctors said that the couple had been stabbed to death while the little girl had no stab wounds on her body and died seemingly of starvation much after the death of her parents.
Following the postmortem examination, the bodies were handed over to the Edhi Foundation.
Edhi sources said that bodies of couple were totally decomposed while the body of little girl was in a relatively better condition.
However, none of the relatives of the deceased had contacted the Foundation till Monday night.
SUICIDE: A boy committed suicide in his house in Al- Asif Square on Monday.
Police said that Ayub, 18, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling. The victim’s father had scolded him over some domestic matter. Later, he ended his life resorting to such extreme step, police added.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for postmortem examination.
