The corpses of a woman, her elderly father and two young daughters, believed to be murdered some five days ago, were found in a house in New Karachi on Sunday morning.

Prompted by a stink emiting from the house, some youngsters from the neighbourhood climbed over the roof and subsequently informed police about the bodies, said an area resident.

The police later entered the house situated in Street 11, Sector F-5 of Rajput Colony and found Rajab Ali, 81, his daughter Jamsheda Khatoon, 40, and her two daughters Amna, 14, and Hina, 12, dead.

“The bodies had started to decompose as apparently their throats had been slit several days ago,” csaid.
The SP said Jamsheda’s husband, Jehangir, who owned the one-room house, had been missing.

The police also didn’t find the murder weapon at the crime-scene.
An officer who visited the house said it seemed that all the four family members were murdered at least four to five days back as their blood had begun to coagulate.

“The body of Rajab Ali was found in the washroom while the bodies of the woman and her two daughters were found lying in the bedroom,” said New Karachi Industrial Area SHO Ishtiaq Ghouri. It was a one-room house, he added.

The official said it emerged during the course of investigation that Jamsheda had married Jehangir about four years back.

She had earlier married Qasim and had two daughters from him.
While the whereabouts of both men were unknown to the police, the investigators were trying to locate her first husband in order to solve the case.

The police described the victims as ‘Bengalis’.