LAHORE: A man allegedly murdered his former wife and daughter in Kot Kamboh, the Nawan Kot police claimed on Sunday.

Police said that Zahara, 42, and her daughter Amna, 9, went missing on Dec 30 after both of them left their house to attend a mehndi function of their relative in Sabzazar.

Victim’s brother Muhammad Dilawar had a kidnap case registered against his former brother-in-law, Tufail.

The woman was living with her son and daughter in a portion of the house of her former husband.

Iqbal Town SP Adeel Memon said suspect Tufail during interrogation confessed to having murdered his former wife and daughter.

He said the suspect also told police that he had thrown the bodies in a drain in the Nawan Kot area.

The SP said that police teams were constituted to recover the bodies from the drain. He said the murder charges would be added to the case after the recovery of the bodies.

Published in Dawn January 2nd, 2017

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