MARDAN: Police found beheaded body of an unidentified woman in Janbaz Naraywala village near Sheikh Yousaf Chowk on Mardan-Charsadda road here on Thursday.

According to officials of Saddar police station, they were informed by local people that they had spotted the body of a woman, about 40 years of age, dumped at a deserted place in Janbaz Nayarwala village.

The police said that unidentified killers had cut head from the victim’s body and dumped both in a sack. They shifted the body to the district headquarters hospital, Mardan.

They said that they had started investigations in the blind murder case after registering FIR against unknown killers.

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