MULTAN: Two children of a maid were found dead in the boot of her employer’s car late Saturday night.

Police said the dead bodies of Shakir, 6, and Irshad, 8, were found in the car parked at the residence of Fazal Abbas Gardezi, a banker, on Old Bahawalpur Road.

Shamim Bibi, a resident of Jalalpur Pirwala’s Zahiri Pull who works as maid at the residence of Mr Gardezi, informed the Cantonment police at 9:30pm that her sons had been missing for the last couple of hours. Police registered a case of the missing boys but were informed after a few hours that their dead bodies were found from the boot of the car by Mr Gardezi’s driver.

Mr Gardezi and the mother of the deceased children said the two brothers might have died due to suffocation after they locked themselves in the car boot while playing. The woman refused to have a postmortem of the bodies.

Published in Dawn, June 22nd, 2015

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