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HARIPUR, Jan 9: One woman and her three young sons were killed and another was seriously injured when they resisted a dacoity attempt by six robbers at their Mohallah Pattan residence here on Tuesday night.
Shehr Bano, wife of Saeed Shah, who miraculously escaped unhurt, told police that at midnight on Tuesday, three bandits broke into the room where she was sleeping with her three children and husband. Three accomplices of the bandits entered the next room where her mother-in-law and two brothers-in-law were sleeping.
She said the dacoits, held all the family members at gunpoint in one room and ordered them to hand over everything to them. “I gave them my gold earrings and Rs 60,000 in cash,” she told the police.
She said when the dacoits were about to leave the house after collecting whatever they could lay their hands on, one of her brothers-in-law, Zubair Shah, tried to resist and opened fire on them with his pistol.
She said the dacoits, who were armed with modern weapons, opened fire on the family and as a result, her husband Saeed Shah, brother-in-law Iqbal Shah and mother-in-law Hussantab Begum died on the spot, while her two other in-laws sustained serious bullet injuries.
The two injured brothers were taken to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, where one died of injuries and the other was stated to be in a precarious condition.
The bodies were removed to the district headquarters hospital, Haripur.
PROTEST: The shopkeepers of Girls College Road closed their businesses on Wednesday in protest against the brutal killings.
A local worker of Pasban, Ishtiaq, who tried to incite the shopkeepers of Sheranwala Gate for a protest demonstration was arrested by the police.
The public circles criticized the local political leaders and government officials for their slackness to provide security of life and property to the people.
During the last couple of months, two people had died in over 15 burglary incidents in different parts of the district.
SUICIDE: A young boy, Khurrum Shehzad, committed suicide with a pistol at his shop in the Darband Adda here on Wednesday. The deceased hailed from Mansehra.
