SIALKOT, May 21: Three members of a family, including a pregnant woman, were axed to death between Monday and Tuesday night by two rivals over a land dispute in neighbouring Choor Chak village, Ahmadabad, Daska tehsil.

Landlord Muslim Khan (62) was asleep in the courtyard of his house along with his wife Parveen Akhtar (35) and daughter Zarqa Muslim (4). After dead of night, Muhammad Asif and his son Wasif (18) entered the house by scaling its boundary wall and killed them with repeated blows of sharp axes. Their neighbours gathered there after listening to their hue and cry, but the killers managed to escape.

The bodies were handed over to their heirs after autopsy at the Daska DHQ Hospital. Later, the deceased were buried in their native graveyard.

Sambrial police have registered a case.

DISMISSED: SSP Muhammad Tahir on Tuesday dismissed from service ASI Muhammad Akram and headconstable Mushtaq Ahmad of Daska Saddar police for negligence of their duty.