PESHAWAR, July 17: The NWFP government has ordered an inquiry into the decomposition of the bodies of three Chinese nationals killed in a terrorist attack on July 8 on Charsadda Road.

The government constituted the inquiry committee on Tuesday to determine the circumstances in which the bodies decomposed, an official said.

The committee would comprise Mushtaq Ahmad Jadoon, Elementary Education Project Director and Dr Anjum Zia, Assistant Professor at Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar.

The inquiry team was ordered to submit its findings within a week.

The bodies of the three

Chinese were kept at the cold storage of the Khyber Medical College’s mortuary and the decomposition took place apparently due to improper arrangements at the facility, an official said.