Pakistani father commits suicide after poisoning children over Eid clothes
A financially distressed father in Pakistan poisoned his three children and took his own life after failing to buy them clothes for Eid, the police said, The News reported on Monday.
According to the police, the incident occurred in Sardar Garh Basti Haji Pir area of Rukanpur village.
The man, who worked as a tractor trolley driver, had been unemployed and distressed for several days, the police said.
In a state of despair, they added, he gave poisonous pills to his two disabled sons and daughter, before ingesting them himself.
The father and two children died, while the daughter is currently out of danger, Sheikh Zayed Hospital said in a statement, where the girl was undertreatment.
This year in February, a similar tragedy unfolded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swabi district, wherein a man took his own life after allegedly slaughtering his four children, including two minors.
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