70-year-old son stabs his father

Published September 6, 2002

MULTAN, Sept 5: A 103-year-old man on Thursday was stabbed to death by his 70-year-old drug-addict son in Gulgasht area.

Police said Muhammad Siddique was sitting in his brother’s barber shop near bridge Mondhay Wali, Nawabpur Road, when Muhammad Anwar came there. He asked his aged father to give him some money to buy heroin, but he flatly refused him. Falling into a rage, Anwar picked up a razor and stabbed his father.

Gulgasht police have arrested the accused after registering a case against him.—APP

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