ISLAMABAD: A woman was found murdered in Sihala, police said.

According to police sources, some passersby spotted the body lying in the woods and informed the police. After getting information, the police reached the spot and shifted the body to hospital for legal procedure.

The deceased is yet to be identified and is said to be in her early 30s, the police said, adding that the body was found half naked and decomposed.

Apparently she was murdered somewhere else and the killer(s) dumped her body in the wooded area, the police said, adding that search was conducted in the surrounding area but nothing could be found to help the police identify her or her killer(s).

Apparently, she was strangled but the actual cause of death would be ascertained after autopsy.

Sub-Divisional Police Officer Sihala DSP Chaudhry Abid Hussain said the finger prints of the woman had been taken and sent to Nadra and her sketch has also being drawn to identification.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2021