{"id":307236,"date":"2017-04-02T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=307236"},"modified":"2017-04-02T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:11:34","slug":"pakistan-sufi-shrine-20-murdered-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/pakistan-sufi-shrine-20-murdered-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Sufi shrine: 20 murdered in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twenty people have been murdered and others wounded at a Sufi shrine near the city of Sargodha, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police say.<\/p>\n
Deputy police commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatta said the main suspect was the shrine’s custodian, Abdul Waheed.<\/p>\n
One survivor told police Mr Waheed had called followers into his chamber one by one, and gave them poisoned food.<\/p>\n
He and his companions then killed them with a dagger and a stick.<\/p>\n
“As they kept arriving, they were torturing and murdering them,” Mr Chattha told Pakistan’s Geo TV.<\/p>\n
The alarm was raised by an injured woman who was among several victims who managed to escape.<\/p>\n