KARACHI: A young woman was found murdered on the outskirts of the city off M-9 motorway on Saturday.

SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area SHO Khalid Abbasi said the body of a woman was recovered from a garbage dump near Chakar Hotel on the motorway.

He said the body bore marks of torture and it appeared that she was killed somewhere else and the body was dumped there later.

The corpse was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed told Dawn the post-mortem examination was carried out and the cause of death was found to be strangulation.

However, all visceral samples had been collected to rule out intoxication. Swabs for serology and DNA were preserved.

The identification of the deceased, who appeared to be in his mid-20s, could not be made till late in the night.

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2024

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