Woman’s body found amid reports of her falling into open sewerage line along with daughter in Lahore
LAHORE: The police late on Wednesday night said that the body of a woman who was said to have fallen into open an open sewerage line along with her minor daughter in Lahore had been found, adding that her husband was being questioned.
Lahore Operations SSP Mohammad Tauqir told Dawn that police had taken the woman’s husband into custody, adding that he was the one who had alleged that his wife had fallen into the sewerage line along with their minor daughter at around 7:30pm.
He said the police were questioning the husband.
“It would be premature to say she was murdered or died in an accident,” he said.
According to the official, the husband was taken into custody on the statement of the woman’s father who alleged that the couple was not on good terms for the past many months.
The SSP said that the deceased woman’s father had expressed his doubts over the role of her husband, who had called Rescue 1122 and alerted it that his wife fell down in the sewerage pipelines along with her minor daughter.
“We are investigating the case and will share more details once it is completed”, he said, adding that the minor girl was still missing.
Earlier, a Rescue 1122 spokesperson had said that teams were dispatched immediately and launched a vigorous search operation after receiving reports of the incident.
Last month, a seven-year-old boy in Punjab’s Bahawalpur district fell into an open manhole in Dhanote town near Lodhran city and died.
The same month, a three-year-old boy’s body was recovered from an open manhole in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal area, more than 12 hours after the incident was first reported.
