MULTAN, Aug 7: One of the four victims of acid attack in New Multan succumbed to her wounds at the local Nishtar Hospital on Wednesday.

Reports said some unidentified people trespassed Husain Agahi Bazaar’s watch dealer Qazi Daud Aziz’s house in Z block of New Multan on July 24 last. They threw acid on Aziz, 60, his wife Tahira, daughter Rabia, 18, and grand-daughter Khaula, 4, and fled. All the four victims were admitted to the Nishtar Hospital in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the police used sniffer dogs to track down the culprits. Led by the sniffer dogs, the police sleuths reached one Zafar’s house in Shah Rukn-i-Alam Colony.

It was learnt that some six months back Aziz had engaged his daughter Rabia to Zafar. But the couple had to sever when some differences cropped up between the two families.

Some one-and-half-month back, Aziz accepted the proposal of one Ali Adnan for Rabia. Marriage of the two was to be solemnized at the end of the current year. But, desperate Zafar threw acid on Rabia and others members of her family. Police had arrested Zafar.

Struggling for life at the Nishtar Hospital, four year old Khaula breathed her last on Wednesday.

When contacted, doctors at the hospital told this correspondent that Rabia’s condition was critical.

ACID ATTACK: A man, along with three accomplices, on Tuesday threw acid on his former fiancee and her husband in Shujaabad Saddar police jurisdiction.

Paternal cousins accused Saeed Khan and Asma had been engaged some two years ago but soon differences surfaced between the two families. One-and-half-year ago, Asma, 25, got married to her maternal cousin Akhtar.

Saeed Khan reportedly kept threatening the couple with dire consequences. On Tuesday night, Asma and her husband Akhtar were asleep in their house when Saeed, along with Allah Ditta, Muhammad Ahsan and Nasir, entered the house and threw acid on the faces of the couple.

They were taken to the Nishtar Hospital where doctors apprehended the victims might lose their eye-sight. Police have arrested Saeed and Allah Ditta while Ahsan and Nasir are at large.