Pakistan Police Arrest Mother and Lover Over Alleged Killing of Her Three Children

Overview

• The children — two daughters and a son aged 3 to 7 — were allegedly killed in Sarai Alamgir in Punjab’s Gujrat district, about 200 km from Lahore, police said.
• Investigators say the suspects mixed sleeping pills into fruit chaat, strangled the children as they slept, then burned and buried the bodies at a deserted location.
• Officers arrested Sidra Bashir after her husband filed a missing-persons complaint and detained Babar Hussain based on her identification, according to police.
• On information from the suspects, police excavated a mountainous site and recovered the children’s bodies.
• Police say Sidra cited plans to marry Hussain as the motive and that the pair met on a video-sharing platform about 18 months ago.