Chakwal: A man after killing his family committed suicide in Chakwal.
The man identified to be Shafqat Saleem killed his innocent four children and wife in Muzdalfa Town in Chakwal.
Shafqat Saleem telephoned 15 before killing his family.
His daughter ages ranging from 16 to 14. Whereas his sons were the age of 13 years and seven years.
Details of the sorrowful incident could not be available in what circumstances he sent him and his dear ones away from the world.
January 23, 2024 another such type of sorrowful incident in Karachi had happened when a jobless man committed “suicide” after murdering his wife and three children in their sleep inside an apartment located near Jinnah International Airport.
They detailed that Syed Ahsan Raza Rizvi committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope after killing his wife and three children inside his apartment. His neighbours told the cops that Ahsan was unemployed for some time.
Police said they also found a 30-bore pistol and rounds from the crime scene besides seizing a note from a living-room, asking to open a file saved in his laptop.
Police officials confirmed that the deceased man wrote details of the entire incident in his note.
The file carries a tragic last message from Ahsan, in which he confessed to committing suicide and killing his family members as he was left with no choice but to choose “this easy option”.
“My wife and children were sleeping and they don’t even know [about my plan to murder them]. I used a stolen pistol to shoot them.”
On December 2, 2023, a devastating tragedy unfolded in the Dijkot area where a financially distressed man took the lives of his wife and three daughters, employing a lethal combination of poisoning and fatal blows with a hammer before ending his own life by consuming poisonous pills.
Mohammad Tahir, 55, succumbed to the burdens of poverty.
In a horrifying turn of events, he administered a drug-laced meal to his 45-year-old wife Naheed Akhtar and three daughters Zehra Fatima, 12, Hiba Tahir, 17 and Raisa Tahir, 19, rendering them unconscious.
There, he narrated the gruesome incident before being transported to Dijkot and subsequently to Civil Hospital Faisalabad, where he eventually succumbed.
DSP Factory Area, Rana Ataur Rehman, revealed that Tahir had previously lost his nine-year-old son in a tragic accident three months ago. Since the fatal incident, Tahir had been battling depression, worsened by the family’s financial struggles.
Financial stress and depression is one of the major causes of suicides in Punjab.
In November 2022, the terrifying deaths of five of a family in Karachi’s Malir area made headlines after a man attempted to kill himself by slitting his throat with a sharp object after slaughtering his wife and three minor daughters inside his home in the Shamsi Society.
The man, identified as Fawwad, miraculously survived and was shifted to hospital in critical condition.
Later, he confessed to killing his entire family in a desperate attempt to end all of his financial hardships and loans after facing losses in the trading business.
