BADIN, July 28: A man committed suicide after killing his wife and an infant daughter here on Friday. Karim Bux Mallah, 30, a resident of Mallah Mohalla, was jobless.

He strangled his wife Noor Jehan and one-month-old baby Mehnaz. Later, he hanged himself with a rope.

Hanif Mallah, brother of deceased Noor Jehan, registered an FIR with the Model police station that his sister and her infant baby were murdered by unk-nown accused with the help of deceased Karim Bux.

Police shifted the bodies to the civil hospital for autopsy.

Karim Bux had four children, three sons and one daughter.

Sons used to sleep at their grandmother’s room and remain-ed safe.

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