SHEIKHUPURA: Six members of a family, including two women and two children, were hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Saoul village, 50km from here, on Tuesday.

Brothers Ibrahim and Saleem, Sharafat Bibi, Shumaila Bibi and children Amjad and an unidentified girl child after harvesting wheat crop were on their way home. When they were hardly 200 metres away from their residence, some unidentified attackers overpowered them, slit their throats and threw their bodies in a nearby field.

Later, the bodies were spotted by passersby. However, the motive behind the murder could not be ascertained until the filing of this report.

Farooqabad Saddar police reached the spot and started an investigation.

Published in Dawn, April 20th, 2016