GILGIT, Nov 23: Two women were murdered in separate incidents in Gilgit.

Police officials told Dawn on Friday that body of a woman was found in the Gilgit River near Baseen on Nov 16. She was later identified as Shukrat, 23.

According to a post-mortem report, the victim was first struck by a stone in her head and then strangled.

The police could not get the post-mortem carried out immediately as no such facility of was available in all the five districts of the Northern Areas and all such cases are referred to downcountry hospitals and that process takes weeks before a final report is prepared.

Police have arrested Nadeem, husband of the victim, on the complaint of her father Suleman Ali.

In an another case, the police arrested two brothers, Gul Muhammad and Nur Muhammad, for allegedly killing their sister, Zulayja, 25, mother of a six-month-old girl, in Konodas.

The police said that the brothers suspected that their sister was having a bad character.