KARACHI: More body parts brought to hospitals: Thursday’s blasts
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 21: Two days after Thursday’s midnight attack on Benazir Bhutto’s cavalcade on Sharea Faisal, killing about 140 people and wounding hundreds of others, mutilated body parts of the victims are still pouring into hospitals, it emerged on Sunday. Bahadurabad police on late Saturday night brought mutilated body parts that appeared to e of two different persons. Hospital sources said police brought a left foot and a right hand ostensibly belonging to the same person. Two feet and a hand bearing burn marks were also brought to the hospital for examination, Dr Abdul Razzak Shaikh told Dawn. Quoting police, Dr Shaikh said mutilated parts were found in the bushes close to a PSO petrol station on Saturday evening.
Police surgeon Dr Bashir Shaikh said following the examination they had recommended DNA profiling of the mutilated parts. “There are at least 16 bags containing mutilated parts of different victims kept in the cold storage at Sohrab Goth. These disfigured human parts are in such a bad condition that it’s almost impossible to identify them,” said Rizwan Edhi, chief volunteer of the Edhi Foundation.
On Sunday five bodies, which were in a better condition, were identified by their relatives and taken for burial from the Edhi morgue. They were Pyar Ali from Matiari, Sona Khan from Hub Chowki, Yaqoob Ismail from Old Haji Camp, Mohammad Ramazan from Bahawalpur and Dr Ashraf Raza from Essa Nagri. Rizwan said there were now nine bodies left at the Edhi morgue which were in an identifiable state, while 16 sacks containing mutilated human parts were also deposited at the morgue. He said people still looking for their loved ones could contact the Edhi Foundation’s Sohrab Goth office at phones 6349411 and 6804483.
KARACHI, Oct 21: Two days after Thursday’s midnight attack on Benazir Bhutto’s cavalcade on Sharea Faisal, killing about 140 people and wounding hundreds of others, mutilated body parts of the victims are still pouring into hospitals, it emerged on Sunday. Bahadurabad police on late Saturday night brought mutilated body parts that appeared to e of two different persons. Hospital sources said police brought a left foot and a right hand ostensibly belonging to the same person. Two feet and a hand bearing burn marks were also brought to the hospital for examination, Dr Abdul Razzak Shaikh told Dawn. Quoting police, Dr Shaikh said mutilated parts were found in the bushes close to a PSO petrol station on Saturday evening.
