Nine of family stabbed to death in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Nine members of a family, including four children, were stabbed to death in a town in Pakistan’s Punjab province following a family feud.

The murders took place in Qadirabad town in Mandi Bahauddin district.

Abdul Rab, a police official, said the nine people were killed with a sharp knife when they were fast asleep.

The dead include three women and four children, police sources told Geo News Tuesday.

Rab said that the murders took place as a result of an old family feud.