KOHAT: A man, his wife and their minor daughter were killed allegedly by one of their relatives following a brawl in Ustarzai here on Thursday.

The area police said that angry Qaisar Abbas killed his maternal uncle Iftikhar Ali, his wife Rozeena Sultan and their five years old daughter Farah.

The bodies were taken to the KDA teaching hospital for autopsy after which they were handed over to the family for burial.

The SP operations inspected the crime scene and constituted various raiding parties.

The police arrested the alleged killer from Tangi Imam area and have registered the triple murder case against him on the complaint of a sister of the deceased, who termed the incident a result of a family dispute.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2021

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