LAHORE, Nov 13: The Sherakot police on Sunday arrested a teenaged boy after he admitted to killing his two younger sisters and a cousin allegedly to preserve his 'honour' in Talapat Park in small hours.

The suspect, who also injured his hand with a gunshot, initially decided to bluff it out and informed the police that four unidentified people entered their house and shot at them for unknown reasons.

Later, the suspect, 16-year-old Akram, admitted to killing his 12-year-old sister Munazza and 13-year-old sister Saba and 30-year-old cousin Rafique for honour.

The police rushed to the scene in response to an emergency call after midnight that two girls and a man were murdered and another youngster was injured by unidentified people at their home.

The police shifted the bodies of Munazza and Saba, daughters of Muhammad Habib (who sells ice and lives in a rented house) and Rafique, a Habib's relative, to Mayo Hospital's morgue.

Akram Habib, who was also having a bullet wound on his hand, told the police at a hospital that unidentified people entered their house and shot at them. However, after sharp interrogation, the youth admitted to having committed the triple-murder in the name of honour.

He informed the interrogators that Rafique, who was his father's relative and used to live with them, had developed 'illicit' relations with his sisters that annoyed him. The suspect said his repeated warnings to both the sisters and Rafique, a labourer, to mend their ways did not bear fruit.

Akram said he gunned down his sisters and Rafique when they were asleep and later injured himself with a bullet wound to deceive the police.

Investigation SSP Abdul Razzaque Cheema told Dawn that Akram admitted to the commission of offense only after a bullet seized from his pocket matched with the empty cases of the bullets used in the crime. He said that circumstantial evidence also negated the suspect's initial claim that the killers were outsiders.The SSP said that Akram's parents were at their hometown, Pattoki, and their four children and Rafique were at home at the time of the incident. Habib's fourth child, a six-year-old boy, remained unharmed.

He said the police also seized the weapon of offence from the scene after registration of a case against the suspect.