Six of a family found slain in Lahore

LAHORE — A woman, her mother and four children have been found slain at their house in the Shalimar area here.
Sajid, a Punjab Agriculture Department employee, who was living in the house of his wife in Muhammad Din Colony, told police he returned home from his office situated on Davis Road on Saturday afternoon to find his wife Uzma (36) and children Jawad, Kashif, Fahad and Basma (all aged between five and 10) slain at the ground flour.
He said later he found his mother-in-law Sarwar Khanum (65) slain in the upper portion of the house.
Senior Superintendent Police (Operations) Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed said the killer(s) slit the throats of all the victims with sharp-edged weapon(s) and fled without taking away anything from the house.
All the doors and windows of the house were intact and there were no signs of forced entry, he said.
According to circumstantial evidence, the killers just slaughtered the victims and went away, he added. “It is yet to be ascertained whether the gruesome murders are a result of some old enmity or any other factor was involved,” he said.