KARACHI, Jan 6: The decomposed body of a private security guard, who had been missing since Jan 1, was found in a desolate place near a link road in the Memon Goth area on Friday, police said.

They said that the victim, identified as 25-year-old Yousaf Ali Magsi, was working as a security guard at a private company.

They said that he had gone to work on the morning of Jan 1 but didn’t return home in Murad Memon Goth.

However, his motorcycle was found in a park in Steel Town about three days back.

The Steel Town SHO said that the victim’s family received a text message from the victim’s cellphone on Friday, which reads: “We have tried to make him understand to stop pursuing our girl, but he didn’t listen…collect his body from Sector 13 MDA link road”.

Subsequently, he said, the family along with the police reached the place and found the body from the bushes.

The police shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.

They said that since the body had lain there for around three days and decomposed, it was not clear whether he was gunned down or tortured to death.

Till late in the night, no FIR pertaining to the killing was lodged at the Steel Town police station.