Suspect in murder of woman, four children held.

QUETTA -- Police have solved the mystery of the cold-blooded killing of five people of an Afghan refugee family in the Kuchlak area and arrested the main suspect along with four others, including a woman, who was a close relative of the victims.

Five persons of the family - a woman and her four children - were slaughtered in Killi Ahmed Shah Nasiran on Sunday last when the family head Hakeemullah was not home.

Deputy Commissioner Pishin Zafar Muhammad Shai, while speaking at a press conference along with Assistant Commissioner Muhammad Ali Durrani, disclosed that the murderer is the nephew of Hikmatullah, who slaughtered Sakina Bibi and her four children with the help of the second wife of Hakeemullah.

He said the 18-year-old suspect, Azhar Mehmood, allegedly had illicit relations with Shazia, the second wife of his uncle Hakeemullah. Sakina Bibi had on the incident day caught them red-handed on which they planned to kill her along with her...

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