FAISALABAD, June 8: Four members of a family were found slaughtered in their house in Shakeel Park, Nishtabad, here on Friday night.

Those slaughtered are Nusrat, 40, her son Hasham, 10, sister Asmat, 26, and three-year-old nephew Osama.

Nusrat’s sister Musarrat went to her sister’s house on Friday night to bring her son, Osama, back but she did not get any response from the house when she knocked at the door. She informed police who broke opened the door and found all the four family members slaughtered.

Nothing was missing from the house.

Nusrat’s husband Nazir is in Italy nowadays.

Police have registered a case and are investigating.

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