The attack took place at the Shrine of Mohammad Ali in the country’s Punjab province on Sunday morning, according to police, who said they had arrested three suspects including the shrine’s custodian for killing worshippers with batons and knives
“The 50-year-old shrine custodian Abdul Waheed has confessed that he killed these people because he feared that they had come to kill him,” regional police chief Zulfiqar Hameed told AFP.
“The suspect appears to be paranoid and psychotic, or it could be related to rivalry for the control of shrine,” he said, adding that the investigation was continuing.
A doctor at Sargodha hospital told the Geo TV channel that the victims were murdered nude and the bodies bore multiple stab wounds and blunt weapons marks.
The chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, has asked for a police report on the investigation within 24 hours, a senior government official said.
The shrine was built about two years ago on the grave of local religious leader Ali Mohamamd Gujjar.
Shamsher Joya, a local police officer, said Waheed would come to the shrine twice a week from Lahore and his followers would submit to "beating and torturing with a red-hot iron rod".
Police said the victims were killed at a house adjacent to the shrine and their clothing was found burned.
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