GUJRAT: Two sisters and their husbands were found murdered under mysterious circumstances in an apartment on the Dinga Road in the area of Kharian Saddar police on Saturday.

The four victims were identified as Rabiya (23), her husband Israr Murtaza, her sister Zainab (21) and her husband Numan.

Police said a four-year-old son of Rabiya cried for help from the window of the apartment, seeking food and milk from a passing-by neighbour woman. On being asked, he told the woman that his mother was asleep.

The woman tried to open the door, which was locked from inside. She called the police helpline.

Police and Rescue 1122 broke the door open to find four people lying dead in a pool of blood.

Police said the incident had occurred on the Thursday night and it surfaced on Saturday when the minor boy sought help. They said Israr, a native of village Mohri Sharif, was residing in the apartment with his wife, Rabiya, and a minor son whereas Zainab, his sister-in-law, had come there after getting estranged from her husband, Numan, a resident of village Khambi of Sara-i-Alamgir.

Sources in police said the initial investigation had suggested that Numan might have visited his estranged wife to take her back and a fight might have occurred there. They suspect in anger killed his wife, her sister and brother-in-law before committing suicide. However, further investigation would determine the facts.

Police shifted the bodies to hospital in Kharian for autopsy and registered a case against unidentified suspects on the report of the mother of the deceased women.

Published in Dawn, December 5th, 2021