A cook has been arrested in Pakistan for killing 25 people by mixing poisonous insecticide in the food prepared at the house of a provincial lawmaker in a tragic case of political vendetta, police said.
The incident occurred on June 8 in Mailsi area of Vehari district in southern Punjab but police launched probe only after media highlighted the deaths which occurred between June 10 and 23.
local police officer Afzal Ali said that the cook, Muhammad Rafiq, prepared the poisonous food at the farmhouse of provincial lawmaker Jahanzeb Khan Khichi after getting Rs 50,000 as bribe from a person known as Arsal Khan Khichi.