KARACHI, Jan 16: Unidentified assailants killed a woman and her daughter- in-law in North Nazimabad on Wednesday.

The police said that Kulsoom, aged 50, wife of Abdur Rasheed, and her daughter-in-law Sadaqat, aged 27, wife of Usman Rasheed, were found slaughtered in their home in Block-L in North Nazimabad in the evening.

The police said that the hands and feet of both the women were tied and their mouths closed with thick tapes.

The SHO Taimooria said that the police were informed by the dead women’s relatives who had dropped in at their home.

“When no one responded to the call bell, the visitors informed the police station,” the SHO added.

The police said that Sadaqat was married to Usman Rasheed about nine months back after her divorce from her first husband. The police were informed at about 7 in the evening of the killings, but probably the killings had taken place in the afternoon.

The police, with the dead women’s neighbours, reached the house and found the women lying in a pool of blood, with their throats slit and hands and feet tied.

The police said that it seemed that the assailants took their time while killing the two women.

The bodies were sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for the post-mortem. Sources at the hospital said that a sharp-edged weapon had been used in the killings.

No FIR had been lodged till our going to the press.

A decomposed body was found in Lines Area on Wednesday night. The police said that the decomposed body was lying behind the bushes on Nizami Road in Lines Area.

The body was sent to Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre for post-mortem. It had been kept in the Edhi’s morgue for identification, the police said.