HARIPUR: A man shot dead his wife and real brother in a remote village of union council Beer, police said here on Sunday.

Police quoted Azam Khan, a resident of village Darwaza, as saying that he was out of home when one of his relatives informed him that his younger brother Waqas Khan allegedly shot dead his wife Shazaina Bibi in their home before killing his real brother Tahir Iqbal Khan.

He said when he reached home he found Bibi’s bullet riddled body in the veranda while the body of Tahir Iqbal Khan was lying in the room of their brother-in-law Fateh Mohammad’s home.

The complainant said that Waqas had mental problems. He said that he had been under-treatment in Islamabad for the last few years.

Police arrested the suspect and recovered a Kalashnikov rifle from his possession.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2022