KARACHI: A 12-year-old boy who had been missing for a couple of days was found murdered in a Gulshan-i-Maymar area on Saturday morning, officials said.

They added that the decomposed body of the victim with torture marks was found in bushes on the outskirts of the city.

Area police said the body was recovered by relatives who had been searching for him for the last two to three days. The corpse was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Police surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi said that the body was decomposed and it appeared to be around two to three days old. The boy was hit on the head with a hard and blunt weapon. He was also strangulated with an aizarband (string) and stabbed in the abdomen. .

Additional police surgeon of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Dr Saleem Shaikh told Dawn that the boy was raped before being murdered.

Malir SSP Ali Raza said the boy had been missing from Khamiso Goth .

Published in Dawn, October 6th, 2019