Pakistan: Mother, Lover Strangle 3 Children After Sleeping Pills

• In Pakistan's Gujrat district, Sidra Bashir and her lover Babar Hussain allegedly strangled her three children (aged 3-7) after giving them sleeping pills.
• The children were killed because Sidra and Babar wanted to marry, and the children were seen as an obstacle; Sidra had repeatedly sought divorce from her husband.
• The suspects mixed sleeping pills into fruit chaat, then strangled the children one by one after they fell asleep.
• They attempted to conceal the crime by burning the bodies at a deserted location before burying them.
• Police launched an investigation after the husband filed a missing person's report, eventually arresting Sidra and then Babar, leading to the recovery of the children's bodies.

Why It Matters: A mother and her lover brutally murdered her three children to facilitate their marriage.