Three body bags found in Panjgur
QUETTA: Three bodies have been found in a seasonal river and another in a deserted area in Panjgur district.
Sources said that local people informed the authorities about three suspicious bags floating in the Rakhshan river on late Wednesday.
Police and personnel of other law-enforcement arrived at the place on Thursday morning and took the bags to the district hospital.
“The bags contained human skeletons,” a police official told Dawn on telephone.
The skeletons could be of people who died about a year ago and were beyond recognition, a doctor said.
Hospital sources said the deceased could be identified only with the help of DNA tests. Samples would be sent to Islamabad or Lahore because there was no forensic laboratory in Balochistan, they said.
Meanwhile, the bullet-riddled body of a man was brought to the district hospital from the Panchekana suburbs of Panjgur town.
The sources said the man had suffered multiple injuries in the head and chest. The body appeared to be two to three days old.
The victim has been identified as Rehmatullah.
About 50 bullet-riddled bodies have been found in Balochistan over the past year.
Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2014