MIRPURKHAS, Sept 23: A police constable shot dead five members of his in-laws’ family, including three children, in the Mohammad Alam Panhwar village on late Sunday night.

Constable Mohammad Ishaq Panhwar and his father-in-law, Ghulam Haider Panhwar, exchanged hot words over a land dispute.

Later the enraged constable opened indiscriminate fire with a TT pistol in the house of his father-in-law, killing Haider, 55, his son, Mohammad Azam, 6, and Nazim, 4, on the spot, and injuring Haider’s wife, Sahib Khatoon, 30, and their other son, Mohammad Alam, 8.

The injured were rushed to the Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital where they were referred to the Liaquat University of Medical Sciences Hospital, Hyderabad, due to their precarious condition. However, as they reached the hospital the doctors pronounced them dead.

The police said that the deceased woman was at the advance stage of pregnancy.

After committing five murders, Ishaq, with the TT pistol and three magazines, surrendered to the Taluka police station.