MANSEHRA, Dec 12: The Shinkiari police have failed to find any clue to the murder of two unidentified girls aged about 16 and 17, whose mutilated and burnt bodies were found on Dec 9 from the forest of Khadila.

The bodies of the girls were buried by the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) Mansehra at the municipal graveyard on Monday. The murder has created harassment among the people.

The sanitary inspector of the TMA informed this reporter that bodies of the girls were badly burnt and turned into coal. He said the woman worker of the DHQ hospital Mansehra who gave them the last bath fell unconscious after having seen their bodies.

Having recovered the bodies on the report of Maulana Qazi Wasiur Rehman, Nazim of the UC Shinkiari, the police started investigating the case under section 156(3) of the CrPC.

The bodies of the girls were totally burnt and a hand and a foot were lying separate. Police have recovered pieces of black velvet cloth, a black sweater, a white plastic bag with two cotton strings burnt at the ends and a red-coloured lid of a plastic can near the spot.