LAHORE: Police arrested a woman on Monday for allegedly killing her husband`s second wife and dumping the body in a quarter adjacent to her house in Liaquatabad area of the city.

According to a police official, some locals witnessed a woman dumping a sack in a quarter adjacent to her house. Finding the woman`s activity suspicious, they reported the matter to the police, he said.

A police team arriving at the scene, recovered the sack, finding the bodyof a woman packed in it.

He said the murdered woman, identified as Tayyaba, turned out to be the second wife of a local resident, Imran.

He said when the police interrogated Imran`s first wife Sadia, she confessed to have killed Tayyaba for contracting marriage with Imran.

In her confessional statement, Tayyaba said she first hit Sadia`s head with a heavy object, leaving her unconscious and then slit her wrists with a knife.Sadia died ofexcessive bleeding, she added.

The police later lodged a murder case against the suspect and shifted the body to the city morguefor autopsy.

To a question, the police official said they were also questioning Imran to determine his role in the murder of Sadia.

In another incident took place in Harbanspura area, a 65-year-old woman, Fazeela, was found dead in her house under mysterious circumstances.

The police said the woman was a widow and residing alone in her house.

Apparently, there were no torture marks on the body.

However, according to a police official, the body was shifted to the city morgue for a postmortem examination to find out the cause of her death.