LAHORE, June 20: North Cantonment police have recovered partially decomposed bodies of a woman and her daughter from their two-marla house in Ittehad Colony.

Cantonment SP Investigation Ameen Bokhari told Dawn neighbours after noticing the stench emanating from the house alerted the police.

He said the victims, identified as 55-year-old Surraya and 18-year-old Munazza, who were apparently murdered three daysago, were stabbed repeatedly.

The SP said Munazza worked at a beauty-parlour located near Joray Pull while her mother worked as a maid in different houses.

Quoting neighbours, the SP said that other than the victims nobody else was residing in their house.

He said the owner and staff of the beauty-parlour where Munazza worked were being interrogated, besides some other people who had acquaintance with the victims.

He said the investigation was on to establish the circumstances surrounding the deaths.

FOUND MURDERED: Manawan police found the body of a 32-year-old man lying near a factory located near Bagh Wali Pulli on Monday bearing torture marks.

Police said the deceased was apparently strangled to death. A local alerted the emergency police after spotting the body.

Police identified the victim as Aamir Mehmood of Qadria Colony, Sahuwari.

Quoting the deceased’s family, the police said Aamir, father of a minor girl and a labourer, had no dispute with anyone.

Police investigation showed that Aamir left his house on Sunday afternoon to bring his wife and daughter from his in-laws’ house in Singhpura.

He had phoned his father, Mehmood Ali, telling him that he would first go to his friend. However, when he did not reach his in-laws’ house even hours after making the phone call, his relatives started looking for him, but to no avail.

The police have shifted the body to city morgue for an autopsy and registered a case against unidentified killer(s) on the complaint of Mehmood Ali.