RAWALPINDI, May 24: A woman was strangulated while her daughter-in-law (Son's wife) was tortured by two masked men who stormed their house in Sadiqabad on Tuesday.

Waqas Ali, elder son of the deceased said that the masked culprits entered into his house and first they tortured his wife, tied her arms and closed her mouth with the masking tape and later they strangulated his mother, Ms Khurshid Qadir. He said that they also took away cash and gold ornaments from his house.

Younger son of the victim, Arif Qadir, a 7th class student, on his return from school, discovered the body of his mother and found that his brother's newly married wife Sadia was lying unconscious inside the house.

Seeing the horrific scene, he started screaming and the people from the neighbourhood rushed to the scene and found both mother and her daughter-in-law lying there. They also found the clothes and other things scattered in the rooms. Dawn

Waqas Ali told that he was on duty at Rescue 1122 when received a telephone call from one his neighbours that his mother had been murdered in a robbery.

He said on receiving the call, he rushed to his house.

Quoting his wife, Sadia, he said that she was ironing clothes in a room while her mother-in-law was sitting in another room when two masked men entered into the house.

She told her husband that she was slapped and threatened to be killed if she tried to call anybody.

Ms Sadia who was married to Waqas Ali some six months ago was removed to Benazir Bhutto Hospital where she was stated to be in a stable condition.

In her statement to the police she said that she could not identify the killers.

Police said it was yet to ascertain the real motive behind the murder as they had been investigating on different lines.

The police said that some cash and other valuables were lying intact on the crime scene.