Islamabad: Six including five of a family killed near Sihala identified

ISLAMABAD: The police on Monday night identified those six deceased people whose bodies were found dumped in the Sihala and Lohi Bher areas earlier in the day.

Police sources said that the victims were Amerullah Khan, director of a cellular company, and members of his family. They added that Khan was killed along with his wife, three children and a servant in mysterious circumstances.

The police said that the family lived in Bahria Town Phase-II.

Khan was strangled to death by unknown people along with his wife Nadia Amer and three sons - Roman Khan, Adam Khan and Haider Khan - and his 24-year-old servant. The family originally hailed from Chitral, the sources said.

According to sources, Ameerullah Khan, a millionaire, was the the owner of real estate worth millions of rupees in Peshawar. Reportedly, he was not only engaged in a dispute with his brother and brother-in-law over the ownership of the property but was also receiving threats from land mafia.

The police are trying to get a clue about the killer, claiming that it could be a sequel to an old enmity.