KARACHI, April 7: A woman was found murdered in her apartment at North Nazimabad late Sunday night.

The police said Nargis Khanum, aged 60, was found murdered with her throat slit in the bathroom of her apartment at Shah Faisal Plaza in Block-B of North Nazimabad. Unknown persons electrocuted her to death as an electric wire was attached to her feet.

On Sunday evening Nargis’s sister had come to visit her. She found the apartment locked from the outside, so she thought that her sister had gone out and waited for her return. When she did not return after several hours, her sister informed other relations and neighbours. They broke open the door and found Nargis murdered. The assailants had killed also a parrot in its cage.

The SHO Hyderi police post ruled out the possibility of robbery as a motive for the killing and said Rs60,000 were lying untouched in a cupboard.

Nargis had three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons were living in South Africa and one in the USA. One of the dead woman’s sons, Dr Babar, had been killed in 1993, the police said.