KARACHI, Oct 7: A dissolute young man killed his elderly parents and a teenaged nephew in their Federal B Area home on Tuesday, police said.

The Gulberg police said the 28-year-old suspect, Nusrat Saad, fled after stabbing to death his father, Nisar Ahmed (72), a retired banker, mother Zakia Ahmed, and his 18-year-old maternal nephew, Sannan, also called Sunny.

Gulberg Town SP Allauddin Abbasi told Dawn that the suspected killer was a drug addict and he quarrelled with his elderly parents very often.

The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where sources at the medico-legal section said the victims received multiple stabs. They said the teenaged victim received the maximum number of stab wounds.

The police said the victims were found butchered in their house (51) in Block 17 at around 10.30am when the eldest son of the victim couple broke open the door.

They said a friend of the teenaged victim, a second year student of the Government Commerce College, reached the victim’s house when he found Sannan’s cellular phone switched off in the morning. Later, he contacted the victims’ relatives after he found the house locked.

Police said the suspect had killed the victims sometime early in the morning. They said the suspect also took a shower before he left the house after the incident.

Police said they did not find the weapon the killer had used in the crime, adding that a search had been mounted for the suspect.

Sources in the victims’ family told Dawn that Nisar Ahmed, father of five daughters and three sons, had retired from the State Bank of Pakistan as vice-president seven years back. They said that Sannan had been living with his maternal grandfather since the death of his father, while his mother was living with his other two siblings in Malir Colony.

One of the family members said the teenaged victim was a bright student who had secured ‘A’ grade in the matric examination.

The eldest son of the victim couple, Nadeem Nisar, told reporters that his brother had been hooked to hashish and other drugs since his early youth. “He is a dissipated and worthless person,” he added.

He said all of his siblings – except for the suspect – were married and lived with their families in different parts of the city. He said his youngest brother, Naveed Nisar, was in Canada.

No case had been registered till late night as the victims’ family were busy in the funeral, the police said. They said a case would be registered against the absconding suspect on the complaint of the victim couple’s son, Nadeem, a resident of Gulistan-i-Jauhar.

Double murder