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| Faith healer held for killing daughter |
| 2006-12-10 |
| MULTAN: Police on Saturday said they have arrested a faith healer from a remote town in southern Punjab for allegedly killing his daughter because he believed she was possessed by an evil spirit. Mohammed Jamal, 50, was arrested on Friday after residents alerted the local police that he had killed his 22-year-old daughter by setting her on fire with the help of his two sons, said Javed Shah, an area police chief. “This is a sad incident. We have also arrested the two sons of Mohammed Jamal, and officers are still investigating,” he said. Shah said Jamal’s daughter used to have fits, and that Jamal believed she was under the control of an evil spirit. “The faith healer and his sons are in our custody, and every thing will be clear in two, three days,” he said, without giving any further details. |
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