LAKKI MARWAT: Decomposed bodies of two women were found in the fields near Nar Yar Sulemankhel area of Naurang town here on Thursday, police said.

They said that a police party reached the place when they learnt that villagers had gathered there. They said the cops with the help of local people dug out the bodies and shifted them to tehsil headquarters hospital for conducting the post-mortem.

“The two women had been killed with a firearm and then buried in the same hole,” said the police. The officials said that the area police had started investigations after registration of a case against unknown killers under section 302 (premeditated murder) in the local police station of Naurang town.

Separately, a boy drowned in a pond near the old vegetable market in Lakki city on Thursday.

An official said that a rescue team reached the area and pulled out the boy identified as Zeeshan Khan, 10, from the pond. He said the boy was taken to the government city hospital where he was pronounced dead.

He said the deceased belonged to Graban locality of Lakki city.

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2021

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