Three girls, watchman found murdered

Source: Daily Dawn


KARAK, March 8: Police found bullet-riddled bodies of three girls and a watchman from the basement of an under-construction building near Karak town on Sunday.

Officials said that police went to the building in Tangori Chowk after receiving information that four bodies were lying in its basement.

The bodies were taken to hospital for post-mortem. Police and hospital staff said that the victims had been shot at point-blank range on Saturday night. The girls were identified as Bibi Hajra (12), Bibi Khalida (14), and Hameeda Bibi (14) and the man Mohammad Rahim, 24.

The motive behind the killing could not be ascertained, but police suspect involvement of relatives of the girls. A case has been registered on the complaint of the grandfather of the girls