ISLAMABAD: A seven-year-old boy from Abbottabad is battling for his life at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where he was brought along the bodies of his two brothers on Monday.

On Sunday night, Ziaur Rehman lodged a report with the Abbottabad police that Nadeem Khan, the cousin of his wife, had taken his three children on an outing in the morning but did not return home.

Rescue 1122 and the Murree police on Monday morning found Zain Ali, 7, with his throat slit at the Bharoha locality near Murree.

The boy told the police that his uncle had slit the throats of his brothers Umeer Ali, 12, and Qadir Ali, 4, with a knife and dumped their bodies in the nearby wooded area. The police recovered the bodies and shifted them to Pims along with Zain. The injured boy was admitted to the surgical intensive care unit of the children hospital.

“The child’s throat was slit so he was operated upon and put on a ventilator,” said an official at the hospital.

Pims spokesperson Dr Ayesha Esani told the media that the child was in a critical condition.

The Murree police said Nadeem was scheduled to leave for Saudi Arabia on April 18 and all airports in the country had been alerted to detain him.