KARACHI: Police on Sunday recovered the bodies of a woman and her three minor children from a house in the Ganna Mandi area of Sohrab Goth, where they were found hanging, in what officials initially described as an apparent case of suicide.
Rescue officials confirmed that four bodies — one woman and three children — were recovered from inside the house and shifted for medico-legal procedures.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) East Zubair Nazir Ahmed Shaikh said the incident was being treated as a suspected suicide at the initial stage, stressing that a final conclusion would only be reached after a thorough examination of all available evidence.
“All aspects of the incident are being carefully reviewed, and nothing has been ruled out at this point,” the SSP said.
According to a police spokesperson, Sindh Home Minister Zia ul Hassan Lanjar contacted SSP East regarding the incident and directed that the investigation be conducted in a transparent and impartial manner. The home minister also instructed that those found responsible be brought before the court at the earliest.
Police said the woman’s husband, identified as Najeebullah, was being interrogated. He reportedly works at a vegetable market and had contracted a second marriage with an Afghan woman.
The deceased were identified as 30-year-old Fatima and her children — 10-year-old Sonam, 3-year-old Arzoo and 2-year-old Arman. Police said Fatima was an Afghan national, while her husband hailed from Layyah.
The tragic incident comes weeks after another disturbing case in Karachi, where three women were found dead inside a house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal’s Block 1 area earlier this month. In that case, a man was also found unconscious, and police said the deceased women were a mother, daughter and daughter-in-law, with the family’s young son alerting authorities.
Investigations into the Sohrab Goth incident are ongoing.
