PESHAWAR: The police on Sunday recovered bodies of a man and a woman from a private school here.

According to officials of the Gulbahar police station, both the persons had died under mysterious circumstances. They said that as per the initial investigation, the dead man was owner of the private school while the woman was its principal.

The police officials said that investigation had been initiated in the case while the cause of their death would be ascertained after the autopsy of the bodies. There was no sign of torture on their bodies, the officials said.

Published in Dawn, January 6th, 2020

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