KARACHI, March 9: Police claimed to have solved the murder case of a Chinese woman and arrested three suspected killers.

Police went in for the technique of DNA test to substantiate the evidence against the suspects, said a senior police official.

Nasir Khan Yusufzai, the SSP Investigation property-I, told this reporter that the Chinese woman, Pao Yun Chiang, aged 72, put up resistance to the suspected killers.

Specimen from the victim’s fingers had been obtained and sent to a hospital in Lahore for DNA test, the only hospital in the country where this facility was available.

The arrested suspects confessed to having killed the Chinese woman. Two suspects hailed from Buner in the NWFP and the third from Sangla Hill, Rawalpindi, the official said, adding they robbed the woman and later killed her.

Police recovered articles belonging to the suspects. One of the suspects dropped his handkerchief and another his gold ring.

The Chinese woman was strangled at her Tung Nan Chinese Restaurant on Tariq Road in PECHS late on the night of Feb 25. The killers trussed up the woman before they killed her.