KARACHI: UTP dies in hospital

Published August 29, 2004

KARACHI, Aug 28: An under-trial prisoner, who had been admitted to the Civil Hospital on Thursday, died on Saturday. Police claimed that the condition of the prisoner, Mukhtar Sadiq, 26, deteriorated in jail on Thursday.

He was taken to the Civil Hospital, where he was admitted to a ward, the police said, adding that during treatment, he suffered a stroke of brain haemorrhage, which proved fatal for him.

BODY FOUND: The trussed up body of an unidentified woman was found in a garbage dump in Ferozabad on Saturday.

Police said that the woman in her mid 30s, was believed to have been strangled as a noose round her neck was found. Her body was lying on a garbage dump in the Sindh Muslim Housing Cooperative Society. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where her identity could not be established immediately.

The body was kept at Edhi morgue for identification after the autopsy, the police added.

ACCIDENT: An unidentified woman died in a hit-and-run accident near Akhtar Colony on Saturday.

The Defence police said that the unknown woman, in her mid 30s, was hit by some vehicle and sustained severe head injuries. The body was taken to the JPMC for autopsy, and later it was kept at Edhi morgue for identification.

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