Suspect reveals how he set parents on fire.

RAWALPINDI -- The man who allegedly set his parents on fire, killing his mother and critically injuring his father last week, was escorted to the crime scene where he told police how he set parents ablaze.

The incident occurred in Ashraf Colony, Dhamial, on June 10.

According to the police, before committing the crime, the suspect, Mohammad Wasim, constantly asked his parents why they were not sleeping.

After everyone fell sleep, he entered the room of his parents with a bottle of petrol, said Ahsan Shahzad, 32, the younger brother of the suspect while quoting his father who is admitted to the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) with more than 60pc burn injuries.

The suspect, who is in four-day remand custody and will be produced in court on Tuesday (today), was escorted to the crime scene. He told the police that after sprinkling petrol on his parents, he first set his mother ablaze and fled.

'My wife, who was engulfed in fire, was asking her son what have you done; I was not expecting this from you,' Shabbir Ahmad, the suspect's father, told his younger son from the hospital bed.

He said when...

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