RAWALPINDI: Decomposed bodies of an elderly woman, her daughter and granddaughter were found from a locked house in Rawat, police said.

Police believed the bodies might have been more than five days old.

The elderly woman and her granddaughter’s bodies were recovered from a store room, while the body of the woman, who owns a beauty parlour in the area, was lying in a room.

The smell from the bodies caught the attention of people in the neighborhood who called the police on Wednesday night.

The elderly woman was identified as Munira Bibi, her daughter as Nisara Bibi and granddaughter as Muskan. Nasira’s husband Imran lives in the UK.

“It is yet to be established whether the victims were shot dead or strangulated,” the City Police Officer (CPO) Israr Ahmed Abbasi told Dawn.

The CPO said forensic postmortem would be carried out on the bodies of the women to ascertain the cause of death.

Police have registered a case and started investigation.

Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2017