Father kills eight-month-old daughter in Punjab, cites poverty as excuse.

CHUNIAN -- In a brutal act, a father and a mother were on Monday arrested from Allah Abad area in the Punjab province, after the former claimed that he had killed her eight-month-old daughter, media reported.

According to reports, the police carried out a raid at a remote village, within the remits of Allah Abad police station, and arrested a man after getting a tip-off regarding the killing of a minor girl.

The police arrested the man and during the initial probe, the accused identified as Sharif, admitted role in killing his eight-month-old daughter and burying her in the open area of the house.

The man, when asked, also identified the place and took out the remains of the infant child while digging it from his hands.

During the probe, he claimed that the child was continuously sick and since they were poor and could not afford medicines for her, he decided to kill her.

The father said that he strangulated the poor...

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