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Woman, daughter poisoned to death
Suspect allegedly took help of his sister to commit murder
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OKARA:
A woman and her daughter were poisoned to death in Basirpur, a town of Okara on Wednesday.
According to the police report, the suspect took the help of his sister to kill his wife and stepdaughter by feeding them poisonous wheat pills.
However, the killer escaped with his sister while police have registered a murder case against the suspects.
Sources said Ghulam Rasool along with his sister Sheeman Bibi killed his wife Sakina and 12-year-old step-daughter by forcefully feeding them with poisonous wheat-pills at a petrol pump in Basirpur town of Okara. The victim had married the suspect Ghulam Rasool after the death of her first husband Farooq. The victim had two children from her first husband, which were living with her mother.
Man shoots dead wife over domestic disputes
Suspect confesses to murder during police interrogation
A man allegedly killed his wife after prolonged domestic disputes in Gulshanabad area of Hasilpur, Punjab.
Kulsoom Bibi, a 32-year-old resident of Gulshanabad area of Hasilpur, was shot in the head by her husband Muhammad Sharif, reportedly due to domestic disputes.
Upon receiving the report of the incident, the area police rushed to the spot and started preliminary investigation. Kulsoom’s husband initially claimed that some unknown persons had killed her. However, he reportedly confessed after further police interrogation that he had shot dead his wife due to domestic disputes.
In Rawalpindi, four patients breathed their last while 29 tested positive.
Naseem Akhtar, 69, a resident of Gulshanabad, Adiala, was shifted to Kulsoom International Hospital on Jan 8 where he died. Imtiaz Bibi, 57, a resident of Lala Rukh Colony in Taxila, had been under treatment at the Fauji Foundation Hospital since Dec 21 but could not survive and died on Friday night.
Abdul Haq, 70, from Wah Cantonment and Mohammad Hanif, 75, from Dhoke Mazharabad in Chaklala succumbed to the virus at Pims where they had been brought on Jan 8. Meanwhile, the district recorded 458 active patients with 86 under treatment in hospitals and 372 isolated in their homes. Moreover, 466 people are waiting for their test results.