NAWABSHAH: A woman and her alleged father-in-law murdered her two little children in a warehouse at the Nawabshah railway station early on Thursday morning after the victims discovered the man and the woman together, police said.

The woman, Ladooni, along with her father-in-law Veeru killed her 10-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. The children’s throat had been slit with a knife, the police officials added.

After killing the children, Veeru attacked his daughter-in-law with the same knife to cut her throat, but she put up resistance during which she got injured, the police added.

Hearing shouts of the woman, a police party reached the spot and arrested the man and took the injured woman and the children’s bodies to the Peoples Medical University Hospital for treatment and medico-legal formalities, respectively.

SSP Shaheed Benazirabad Tanveer Hussain Tunio told journalists in a press conference at the DSP office that Veeru had “illicit relations” with his daughter-in-law for some time and on Thursday he called her from Shahpur Chakar. The woman had arrived here with her two children to meet him.

The woman was under treatment. The bodies were handed over to their uncle Khemumal.

The police sources informed that the deceased children’s father was in unstable mental condition for years.

Police registered an FIR against both the suspects and presented Veeru in court. The man was remanded in police custody for two days.

Meanwhile, the case took a turn when an elder brother of the deceased reached Nawabshah and disowned Veeru as his grandfather.

He told journalists that his mother along with his two siblings left home for visiting a graveyard in Hala. He said that Veeru was not his grandfather, but a distant relative and his grandfather had died eight years ago. He said his mother was innocent and accused Veeru of fabricating the story and involving his mother to save himself.

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2019