In a tragic case in Sarai Alamgir, Gujrat district of Pakistan’s Punjab, a married woman and her lover allegedly strangled her three children to death after giving them sleeping pills, police reported on Saturday. The victims—two daughters and a son, aged between three and seven—were killed in the harrowing incident, which took place roughly 200 km from Lahore.
Sidra Bashir, the mother, had reportedly met her lover, Babar Hussain, on a video-sharing platform about a year and a half ago. According to a PTI report, Sidra repeatedly asked her husband for a divorce and frequently quarreled with him as she and Babar planned to marry.
“When they made plans to marry, the woman repeatedly asked her husband for a divorce and frequently quarrelled with him,” police officer Omar Farooq told PTI.
During questioning, Sidra admitted that the children were killed because the couple could not marry otherwise. The suspects allegedly mixed a large quantity of sleeping pills into fruit chaat, gave it to the children, and strangled them one by one as they fell into a deep sleep.
“Both burned the bodies at a deserted location so that they would not be identifiable and then buried them there,” the officer added.
Police launched a search after Sidra’s husband filed a missing person’s report for her and the three children.
“Tracing the woman was a difficult task. Our intelligence team succeeded and arrested her. Following her arrest, we also apprehended her lover, Babar Hussain, on her identification,” Farooq said. During interrogation, Sidra confessed to killing the children alongside Hussain.
Acting on the suspects’ information, police excavated a site in a deserted mountainous area and recovered the children’s bodies, bringing an end to the harrowing case.
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