GUJRAT: A woman turned out to be the killer of her two minor children in the Rangpur locality of the city as A-Division police on 27th May claimed to have resolved the mystery of the double murder case.
The suspect confessed to strangling her five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter to contract a second marriage with a man.
A spokesman for Gujrat police said Shafay and Naimat, the children of one Usman Ahmed, were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their house on Feb 6. The police had lodged a murder case against unidentified suspects. Their mother, Nazish Usman, went missing some days after the incident and police lodged a kidnap case against unidentified suspects.
District Police Officer Dr Mustanser Atta Bajwa constituted a team under the DSP city circle to trace the suspects involved in both cases.
Later, the police traced and detained Nazish who revealed that she wanted to contract marriage with Samar Abbas of village Mohlan Kalan who had asked her to first eliminate her children if she wanted to marry him. At this, she had killed her children through asphyxiation.
Police said Samar Abbas had fled abroad and the process for his arrest through Interpol had been initiated.
Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2025
