The killed five members of the same family find grave after 48 hours

Lahore: The ill fated family has been buried in a local graveyard after 48 hours of the tragedy.Their funeral was offered late at Thursday night in their residential area.

The forensic experts also collected blood samples and fingerprints from the crime scene. The investigators are yet to ascertain the motives behind the gruesome killings, which triggered panic in the posh locality on Wednesday afternoon.
All the victims were shot in the head. Later, the man also shot himself in the forehead.

Police investigators have decided to close the file of the killing of five of the same family as the strong evidences were marked that support the reason that the 42-year-old fanatic Basharat Ali shot dead his wife and three children before shooting himself at his house in Model Town on Wednesday . Basharat Ali, his wife Faiza, 35, and three children including eight-year-old Abdullah, six-year-old Abdul Hadi, and five-year-old daughter Hiba were lying dead in a pool of blood inside a room as the investigators burst into the house.

The bedroom was also locked from inside. The cops found five dead bodies lying in a pool of blood as they broke open the door and entered the room. The police investigators also observed that the ceiling fan, inside the room, was switched off.

According to locals, Basharat Ali had been living on the ground floor along with his wife and three children while his elder brother Liaqat Ali was residing on the upper portion of a five-Marla house for the last several years.

The forensic experts seized a pistol and a few bullets from the crime scene on Wednesday afternoon and apparently it seemed that the man killed his kids and wife before taking his own life with that weapon.

But at the same time some police investigator expressing suspect that it would have been a killing of whole family in a cold blood by someone else.

The police on Thursday handed over the bodies of five persons of the same family to the heirs after doctors performed postmortem and sent a few samples to the Punjab Forensic Science Agency for further investigations.

The family believes that Basharat shot dead his wife and three children, all under the age of eight, before shooting himself in the head at his house located in the limits of Liaqatabad police. A case has been registered after 24 hours of the incident on the statement of Liaqat Ali without nominating anybody for the killing .

“The report of chemical examiner will help to establish either the victims were given some sedative before shooting or they were shot only.

Police rushed to the spot soon after Shahzad, a nephew of Basharat, contacted the emergency helpline (Resce-15) and informed the police that his uncle was not picking up his mobile phone. As the cops reached outside the house (No 448-A) in Q-Block Model Town, the caller also told them that nobody was responding to the doorbells. The investigators had to break open the door to move inside.

Liaqat, said to be an Accountant at the Lahore Wapda House, was present in his office when the incident took place. His son, advocate Shahzad, disclosed the happening to the police. However, the other family members of Liaqat were sleeping on the upper portion, according to a family member.

The police were alerted about the incident at about 3:00pm. Police believe the killings took place at least two to three hours before they were contacted by a nephew of the deceased.
According to initial investigations, the man had mixed some poison in soft drinks before serving it his wife and kids. As they fell unconscious, he shot them one by one and then committed suicide by shooting himself.