The police in Quetta have booked a man for ‘murder without intention’ after his wife poisoned the couple’s four daughters and died by suicide following a domestic brawl.
The first information report was filed under section 322 (Punishment for qatl-bis-sabab) of the Pakistan penal code.
Police believe that the accused, Abdullah who was in police custody fought with his wife and then went out of the house. The wife, 35-year-old Fatima Bibi, allegedly got upset and mixed poison in a bottle of coke which she fed the children first and later drank the same poison-laced beverage herself.
Fatima and Abdullah lived in the Barori Hazara Town area of Quetta.
The dead children include three-year-old Alina, six-year-old Armina, eight-year-old Mooeda and ten-year-old Zohra Bibi.
Fatima was alive when rescue worker arrived at the couple’s home on Monday. She was rushed to the hospital and given oxygen on a ventilator, but she also died during the treatment.
According to the police, Abdullah, the father of the children, used to drive a rickshaw and was unemployed.
The bodies were moved to Bolan Medical Complex.
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