Three Kharadar siblings' death remains a mystery.

KARACHI -- The death of three young siblings in the Kharadar area has remained a mystery for the police investigators as the family of the deceased children on Tuesday denied any legal proceedings to know the reason behind their death while suspecting food poisoning to have killed the two girls and a boy.

Officials said that all three children were buried in the Mewashah graveyard late on Monday and the police who approached the family the same day were forced to return empty-handed.

They said the family denied the autopsy of the children which had made it tough for the investigators to initiate and set the course of their probe.

'Three siblings - 11-year-old Aiza, eight-year-old Saad and three-year-old Safa - were brought to the emergency unit of a Kharadar hospital in the early hours of Monday,' said an official. 'They died one after another within the next few minutes. They were unconscious and their faces were pale. The hospital tried its best but they did not survive. An initial statement of the hospital management quoted the family that the children had eaten a burger bought from an outlet in Burnes...