PESHAWAR, April 8: The body of a South African national was found in a plastic bag on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday, police said.
The body was found in the plastic bag in Peshawar's Baboo Garhi suburbs, police said.
According to the passport found in his pocket the man was identified as Kenneth Scott Andrew, a resident of Durban. He was 26. Police said he had come to Peshawar on January 1 this year on a tourist visa. Police are now treating the case as murder.
Doctors who carried out the post-mortem on the body said that the man had no firearm injury or knife wounds and they suspected that he had been poisoned material. “We have taken the samples and sent to the forensic lab in Lahore. It appears that he vomited blood before his death,” a doctor who conducted the autopsy said. —AFP
