SAHIWAL: A foster daughter and her husband poisoned her mother at 129/9-L village on Thursday.

The Dera Rahim police arrested the couple and registered a case against them. Banwa Bibi adopted her sister’s daughter Zahra when she was a child. She married off the girl with a youngster in the family some time back. The couple poisoned the woman to death.

Police arrested the couple and sent the dead body for autopsy at the Sahiwal Teaching Hospital.

KILLED: A young man was shot dead by his friend over a minor dispute at 175/9-L village on Thursday.

Police registered a case on the complaint of the young man’s father.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2022

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