FAISALABAD: A man allegedly axed to death his six-year-old daughter and injured his wife and a son over some family dispute in Sattiana on Monday night.

Abdul Razzaq (48), a resident of Chak 39-GB, quarrelled with his wife Nazia Bibi on Monday night. Later, he attacked his family members with an axe when they were asleep. Razzaq allegedly killed his daughter Noor Fatima and injured Nazia and son Ali Hamza (12).

The injured were said to be stable at hospital.

Sattiana police have arrested the suspect and recovered the weapon.

Woman kills husband: A woman allegedly killed her husband and injured a woman he had an alleged affair with here on Monday night in Jaranwala.

Deceased Ghulam Qamar’s brother Muhammad Rafiq filed a complaint with the police, alleging that his brother’s wife Ruqaya Bibi suspected that Qamar had an affair with a woman.

Rafiq said the couple had sour relations over the issue and he along with two relatives reconciled them.

He said he stayed at his brother’s house and witnessed Ruqaya axed her husband to death. Rafiq said later she visited the house of the woman and allegedly attacked her with an axe but she was rescued by her father.

Police have arrested the suspect who confessed to killing her husband and injuring the woman.

‘Burglary’: More than one dozen suspected robbers allegedly looted employees of a PML-N MNA on Monday while they were asleep at his farmhouse in Miani, Dijkot.

Mian Qasim Farooq, son of MNA Mian Farooq, alleged the robbers were armed and broke into the farmhouse at about 10pm on Monday. He also claimed that the suspects held seven to eight employees at gunpoint and tortured some of them.

He said his manager present at a nearby outhouse heard screams and rushed towards the farmhouse accompanied by his guards.

He said the robbers and his guards exchanged aerial firing following which the suspects fled.

He claimed the suspects took away two Kalashnikovs and some belongings of the employees.

Qasim said he believed the robbery was preplanned and that he would initiate a search for the suspects on his own. He said his house was also in the vicinity of the said farmhouse.

City Police Officer (CPO) Afzaal Kausar met with MNA Mian Farooq on Tuesday and assured him that police were doing their level best to trace the suspected robbers.

The MNA’s son said his family would wait for a few days for police to take action before holding a press conference in case police failed to do so. Qasim claimed that no case had been registered so far.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2017