HARIPUR: Unidentified masked robbers allegedly smothered an elderly woman to death and injured her granddaughter over putting up resistance to the robbery in the limits of Ghazi police station here on Monday.

Family of the deceased women alleged that robbers decamped with gold ornaments and cash worth hundreds of thousands.

Ghazi police quoted Saifer Ali, a resident of Jhamra village, as saying that his mother Shamim Akhtar, 70, was sleeping in her upstairs bedroom of the house with her granddaughter Almas Bibi, 20, when four unidentified masked men entered their room from the door on the kitchen side and smothered his mother with pillow to death after injecting her some sedative forcibly when she attempted to put up resistance.

The granddaughter of the elderly woman was also injected with some sedative and injured when she started crying for help. The complainant said that the robbers removed gold bangles, earrings and necklace from the body of his mother before leaving the home. He said that the accused also deprived him of Rs1.4 million cash and gold ornaments weighing eight tolas.

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2025