KARACHI, Oct 13: The body of a young man with torture marks was found within the remit of the PIB Colony police station on Thursday.

Police said that the body bore contusion and strangulation marks and was found dumped in the Lyari river near Essa Nagri.

The police believed that the victim was a drug addict but were baffled by the strangulation marks.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Another body was found within the remit of the Brigade police station.

Police said the body was found in a garbage dump in Abyssinia Line, adding that there were several marks of injury on the head.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities and, later, to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.

Accident

A rickshaw driver and a young boy were killed and several others injured in a road accident in New Karachi on Thursday morning.

Police said that a minibus of 'W-11' route hit a rickshaw carrying three women and six children near Charrhai stop in Sector 11-D of New Karachi.

They said the rickshaw driver, Mohammad Anwer, 60, and a six-year-old boy, Ahsan, died while the other occupants of the rickshaw sustained injuries.—Staff Reporter