MULTAN (Pakistan) - Five women and two children had their throats slit in a land dispute, and police were searching yesterday for two relatives who escaped the scene. The victims — all members of the same family — were attacked with daggers at their home at Rajanpur, a remote town in central Pakistan 400km west of Islamabad. Revenge killings and murders over land disputes are common in Pakistan.
| Murders for any reason you can think of, even while high on crack, are common in Pakistan... |
Police official Tahir Musatafa said the men who had killed the family and were being searched for were related to the victims. Further details on the attack this week were not immediately available.
| "Yeah. We'll get around to finding them. Nothing to worry about. No mullahs were hurt..." |
Meanwhile, four brothers slaughtered their stepmother, two stepbrothers and four stepsisters and dissolved their bodies into acid over a land inheritance dispute in southern Pakistan. The murders took place four or five days ago in Rajanpur, some 200km west of Multan, but police recovered the bodies yesterday when a man related to family went to visit them and informed police about it.
| "Yeah. I just stopped by to read the Koran to Aunt Fatimah and the boys, and there they were, bludgeoned to death and dissolved in an acid vat. So I had a sandwich, then came right down to the cop shop..." |
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