HARIPUR: Unknown assailants strangled and stabbed a married woman to death in a remote village of Bagra union council, police said here on Thursday.

Sera-i-Saleh police quoted Hamad Ali, 16, a resident of Karwala village, as saying that his father Mohammad Shafiq had been in Saudi Arabia for the last one and a half years and he was living with his mother and minor sister.

He said that he went to sleep in their common bedroom with his mother Samnaz Bibi, 32, and sister Kainat Bibi on Wednesday night. He said when they woke up at around 5am on Thursday morning they found their mother missing.

Upon search he found the adjacent bedroom locked from outside and when they opened it they found their mother lying on the bed and a dupatta tied around her neck while she was bleeding from the torso.

The complainant said his and her mother’s mobiles were also missing from the room. He said he informed his maternal uncle who shifted the body to Trauma Centre with the help of police.

According to police and doctors, the woman was strangled and stabbed which caused her death.

Published in Dawn, April 22nd, 2022