Overview
- Police found the bodies of five family members inside a locked house on Tuesday, including a husband, his wife, the man’s sister and two young girls.
- Officers recovered a handwritten note that reportedly blames severe financial hardship and alleged harassment by relatives, and investigators are collecting samples of prior handwriting to verify it.
- Investigators say the adult couple had gunshot wounds, a pistol was recovered and a white powder suspected to be poison was seized for laboratory testing as police probe whether the children and sister were poisoned.
- Senior Sindh police and the provincial home minister have ordered a transparent, impartial inquiry and directed post‑mortem examinations, forensic lab work and regular reporting on the case.
- The discovery follows a similar multi‑death case in Karachi weeks earlier and raises fresh questions about gaps in social and financial support for families under acute economic stress.