Exclusive translation : A ‘Pakistani man’ has been arrested after he shot his 7-day-old daughter because he wanted his first child to be a boy.
5 bullets
A newborn girl named Jannat was shot five times last Monday at her home in the central city of Mianwali, police said, according to the Daily Mail.
moment of killing
The murderer’s father, “Shahzeeb Khan”, entered his wife’s house, and ordered her to hand the baby over to him, after which he shot her, then ran away, but today, Thursday, he was caught by the police.
uncle of the dead
For his part, “Hedayat Allah”, the uncle of the murdered infant, said that he submitted an official complaint against his brother to the official authorities after killing his daughter, and he was arrested in a nearby neighborhood.
Hedayatullah said that he tried to take the child away from his brother, but the murdering father pointed a gun at him and other relatives and threatened to shoot them if they approached him.