MANSEHRA: A man allegedly shot dead his wife before taking his own life in the Salampura area within the jurisdiction of the Khaki Police Station here on Monday.
“We shifted the bodies to a nearby health facility after receiving information that a man and his wife were lying in a pool of blood following the gunshots,” District Emergency Officer of Rescue 1122 Ibrar Ali told reporters.
According to police, Mohammad Bashir allegedly opened fire on his wife, killing her on the spot, before shooting himself dead.
Police and Rescue 1122 personnel rushed to the scene and shifted the bodies to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital for medico-legal formalities.The bodies were handed over to their respective families after postmortem examinations were completed by the doctors.
The family members of Mohammad Bashir told reporters at the hospital that he had contracted a second marriage with the slain woman and had been under severe mental stress for months.Meanwhile, relatives of the deceased woman expressed suspicion over the circumstances of the incident, saying that the shooting took place in the presence of the couple’s three-year-old daughter.
