KARACHI, April 8: A German national was found dead in a hotel room where he had been staying for the last 10 days, police said.
A senior police official said Fritz Walter, 57, a German technician, was staying at a local hotel along Sharea Faisal. He was employed with a German firm and had arrived here to help install a biscuit factory here for his Pakistani client.
He had gone inside his room on Saturday night and could not come out when a company driver arrived to get him. The hotel management called the Ferozabad police, who broke into the room and found him dead.
“We found him dead naked in his room. The room was locked from inside but there was no sign of violence or any marks or bruises on his body were found,” Sultan Khwaja, TPO of Jamshed Town, told Dawn.
He said there was no prima facie evidence that showed any act of crime inside the room. He was a heavy smoker and might have died due to a heart attack, he said.
The police seized his mobile phone and other belongings for further investigation.
GUARD KILLED: A private security guard was found asphyxiate inside a bank branch in the jurisdiction of the Kharadar police station on Sunday.
According to police, Bashir Ahmed, 50, belonging to the National Police Foundation, was found dead inside the UBL’s Bombay Bazaar branch in Kharadar.
A police official said unknown killers entered the bank branch by breaking the bank’s ATM machine late on Saturday night. Bashir’s reliever found him dead on Sunday morning and informed the police. The deceased’s repeater gun and two CPUs of the bank were also found missing. A Kharadar police official said the bank officials had not reported about the looting of money etc.
BODY FOUND: The Manghopir police found the body of a 45-year-old unknown man in the Hub Canal on Sunday. The body was taken to the hospital for autopsy.
