KARACHI: Body found

Published September 19, 2008

KARACHI, Sept 18: A partially decomposed body of an unidentified young man was found near Hazrat Abbas Colony, police and witnesses said.

Manghopir police said that the body was found lying in the bushes at a desolate place in the wee hours of Thursday.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination.

Sources at the hospital said that the body, that bore several marks of torture and burns, was at least three days old. They said the victim, who appeared to be in his mid 20s, was clad in a sky-blue shalwar-qamees.

The body was later handed over to the Edhi Trust for burial as the victim remained unidentified.

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