TANK: The mystery behind the murder of a minor boy was resolved as his teenage neighbour allegedly confessed to the crime here on Thursday, stating that he was copying a video in which militants were shown beheading a person.

The suspect, Noor Mohammad (14), was presented before the media at the DPO office during a briefing here on Thursday.

SP Kifayatullah told media persons that the police had arrested Noor Mohammad, the alleged murderer of Saeed Ullah, 7, a resident of Elahi Abad. Saeed went missing on March 1 and his body stuffed in a sack was found the next day on South Waziristan road.

He said that the suspect confessed to his crime and the police also recovered a sharp weapon used in the crime from his possession. Relatives of the missing boy had registered a case against unknown persons with the Cantt police station.

The police said that Saeed and Noor were friends and living in the same locality.

They said that during investigation the suspect divulged that he and Saeed would often exchange videos regarding slaughtering people. He allegedly told police that one day when his parents went to attend a wedding ceremony of a relative in another village he called Saeed to his home.

The police quoted the suspect as saying that while enacting the video he fastened hands and legs of Saeed with rope and ‘rubbed’ his throat with a knife. He said that when he saw blood he got nervous and stuffed the body in a sack and threw it in bushes. — Correspondent

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2015

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