SUKKUR, July 9: Bullet-riddled body of a woman was found in a house in Jacobabad on Monday.

She was identified as Asia, 28. Her body was removed to Civil Hospital for post-mortem and handed over to relatives after completion of formalities.

Qadir Bux Lashari, her husband, told journalists that he received a telephone call informing him that Asia had committed suicide.

Sources close to her family, however, said that she had been killed. No case could be registered till late on Monday evening.

Boy DROWNs: A minor boy drowned in Musa Allahabad Shaikh (canal) near Hassanabad village in Thull on Monday.

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