Shrine custodian kills 20 people in Sargodha
Police have arrested seven suspects along with the custodian Abdul Waheed.
SARGODHA (Dunya News) – Atleast 20 people including four women were tortured to death on Saturday night by the custodian of a shrine in Sargodha.
Police have arrested seven suspects alongwith the 50-year-old shrine custodian Abdul Waheed.
Sargodha Deputy Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatta says that Abdul Waheed, successor of Ali Muhammad Gujjar, is mentally unstable and an employee of Election Commission.
Abdul Waheed and his accomplices gave intoxicated food to the 22 people present on the shrine and later murdered them after attacking with dagger and sticks, added the DC.
However; three people including a woman escaped from the shrine and reached District Hospital Sargodha in injured condition.
The woman reported the incident to the authorities after which heavy contingent of police rushed to the scene and arrested the suspects.
Doctors have found torture marks on the victims’ legs and back. They have said that the people were tortured in intoxicated condition.
Police have identified 17 victims. Two of them belong to Islamabad, one from Mianwali, two from Layyah whereas some of them were Sargodha locals.
Besides this, six of the victims were from the same family.
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According to SHO, the suspects tortured the people after getting them naked.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has asked for a police report on the investigation within 24 hours, a senior government official said.
Visiting the shrines and offering alms to the poor -- and cash to the custodians -- remains very popular in Pakistan, where many believe this will help get their prayers answered.
There have been cases of people dying during exorcism ceremonies at some Sufi shrines across Pakistan, but mass killings are rare.
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