MEERUT, May 1 -- A 27-year-old woman was brutally murdered in her sleep after her throat was slit while she lay beside her three young daughters in the Lisadi Gate area in Meerut district on Thursday night. The incident came to light on Friday morning, said police on Friday.

The victim has been identified as Kausar. According to police, she was asleep in a first-floor room of her home with her three daughters when an unidentified assailant allegedly entered and attacked her with a sharp-edged weapon.

All three of her daughters were in the room at the time of the attack, but they were not harmed, police said, adding that Kausar's husband, Shakeb, was not at home at the time of the incident, as he had gone to the local mandi.

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