KARACHI, June 1: Police on early Tuesday morning took possession of the remains of the suspected suicide bomber who blew himself up in Imambargah Ali Raza on Monday night.

A piece of skull, teeth, some shreds of black trouser and white-lining shirt were shifted from Imambargah Ali Raza to Mehfil-i-Murtaza, where a team of medicolegal officers examined them.

The MLOs team, formed on early Tuesday morning, comprised of Dr Farhat Abbas, Dr Abdul Razzak, Dr Tayyab Imrani, Dr Tayyab Khokhar of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and Dr Saleem Shaikh of Civil Hospital.

After examination, the team observed that the skull, teeth and pieces of clothes belonged to the suspected suicide bomber. On this information, the Imambargah Mehfil-i-Murtaza management officials stated that they were not interested in keeping the remains of the suspect.

The management asked police officials concerned to take back the possession of the remains. The team of forensic experts also carried out postmortem examination of seven bodies at the Mehfil-i-Murtaza.

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