QUETTA - A mother allegedly killed her four daughters after throwing them in a water tank in the Faizabad area adjacent to Quetta’s Airport Road. The woman also attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the water tank.

According to police officials, bodies of the girls, aged between two and 10, were recovered on Thursday from the water tank.

The girls’ father, Mehmood Khan, alleged that his wife was mentally ill, adding that she poisoned the children and then threw them into the water tank. Police officials said they were investigating the matter. “Initially, their father Muhammad Khan said that his wife was mentally ill and had poisoned the minor girls,” a police official said.

“But doctors at the hospital where the bodies were taken said they have been killed by drowning,” he said.

The bodies of the girls - identified as Zakia, Farzana, Parwana, Yasmeen - were shifted to Quetta Civil Hospital for autopsy, where the mother was also admitted in an unconscious state.

MAN COMMITS SUICIDE IN MACHH

A man committed suicide in Kirta near Machh area of Bolan district. Levies sources said on Thursday that the Ahmad khan shot himself dead with a pistol at his house.

The body was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities. The reason of the suicide could not be ascertained so far. Police registered a case and started investigation.

Meanwhile, Law enforcement agency (LEA) personnel recovered a large number of smuggled watches at Liaqat Bazaar area of provincial capital on Thursday.

According to LEA spokesman, working on a tip-off, LEA personnel raided at the market and seized a large number of smuggled watches and calculators from a watch house. Further investigation was underway.