A man killed his father, brother and two sisters over a family dispute on Thursday morning in the village Mohra Janjua, a suburb of Rawalpindi.
The incident took place in the limits of Police Station Jatli, village of Tehsil Gujar Khan. According to police, Muhammad Azad, resident of Mohra Janjua accepted a marriage proposal for his daughter Ayesha by a relative Junaid, while his wife Riffat and son Usman refused to accept the proposal. Riffat along with her son went to her brother’s home. On Thursday morning, Usman along with three of his cousins reached his father’s house, entered the room where his family members were sleeping, and opened indiscriminate firing. As a result, his father Azad, 54, brother Qadeer, 27, and sisters, Ayesha, 24, and Fiza, 21, died on the spot. Local Police reached the spot and shifted the bodies to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Gujar Khan for postmortem while the accused involved managed to escape before the arrival of police.\ Media persons tried to inquire the deceased’s relatives about the incident but they refused to talk to anyone.
A case has been registered with police station Jatli in which Usman, son of deceased Azad, Niaz Ahmad, Munir and Rahila, were also nominated in the First Information Report (FIR).
No accused had been arrested as yet while police officials said a special team has been constituted to arrest the accused.
