PESHAWAR, Dec 15: Bodies of two school students, who went missing a day earlier, were recovered from Ali Baig village of the Nowshera district on Friday. Officials of the Pabbi police station received an information about the presence of two bodies near a rain brook in the village.

They shifted the bodies to the Pabbi Satellite hospital for post-mortem.

The deceased were identified in the afternoon by their parents as Haq Nawaz, 17, and Saddam, 18, both residents of Peshawar.

The boys were students of class-VIII at the Government High School Yakatoth, Peshawar.

They had acquired a motorbike on rent from a shop in Faqirabad area and had gone missing.

Both the bodies carried bullet marks.

The parents told journalists at the Pabbi hospital that they had no enmity with any one.

Officials of the Pabbi police station registered an FIR under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code against unknown killers.

The police believed that the students might have been killed some where else and the bodies were thrown at a deserted place in Ali Baig village.

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