KARACHI: The body of a five-year-old boy, who went missing two days ago, was found in a garbage dump in Gulshan-i-Hadeed on Wednesday evening, police said.

Steel Town SHO Ghulam Mujtaba Bajwa told Dawn that the boy, Subhan Khalil, had left his home alone on Aug 14 for an Independence Day rally. However, he did not return home.

The family lodged a report regarding his disappearance at the police station. His relatives and police were looking for him when they spotted the body in a garbage dump behind the ‘Kashana’ building in Gulshan-i-Hadeed.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

Doctors at the health facility said that the body had lain there for around two days.

Additional Police Surgeon Dr Kaleem Shaikh of the JPMC said that the boy was slaughtered, as there were wounds on the neck. Besides, there were also some injury marks on the chest, he added.

The area SHO said that the police were treating it as a murder case.

Some seven people had been detained for questioning.

Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2017