KARACHI: Four bodies decomposed beyond recognition were found in an abandoned building off the Superhighway in Gadap City on Sunday, according to police.

The corpses, which had turned into skeletons, were found in the dried-up water tank of the building near Edhi Village. The structure belonged to the National Highway Authority, said Gadap City SHO Abdul Khaliq Marvat.

From their clothes, all the dead appeared to be of men as they had on Shalwar-Kameez and one of them had vestiges of a beard, he said.

The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem examinations and the doctors had reserved the cause of their death, he said.

The police official said that NHA officials noticed the bodies in the building during a survey for the proposed motorway project. They informed volunteers at the nearby Edhi Village who conveyed the message to police, he said.

He said the bodies had been handed over to the Edhi Foundation for burial.

Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2015

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