OKARA: The alleged murderer of five people of his in-laws family, Rafique, of Alipur, turned himself to the City A-Division police on Sunday. Late on Saturday, Rafique also shot at and injured Muhammad Ashraf, a trader of the city, to whom he suspected that he was helping his in-laws in cases against him.

Rafique shot his ex-wife and her mother and their three relatives dead, besides injuring three others, on Saturday after a family court decided a maintenance suit against him.

District Police Officer Muhammad Hassan Iqbal visited the police station and interrogated him. The police completed the postmortem of the five deceased. Of them, Ashiq and his son Suleman laid to rest at Ghory Shah graveyard while Farzana, her brother Kashif, Zubeda and Maryam were buried in Faisalabad. Injured trader Ashraf was admitted to the DHQ City hospital.

Also, four people suffered injuries when the roof of a farmhouse fell on them during heavy rains on Sunday in village 10/GD. Locals informed the Rescue 1122 team which with the help of villagers recovered two women, a man and a minor girl from the debris and shifted them to the DHQ City Hospital.

Published in Dawn, July 18th, 2022