TAXILA: A bullet-riddled body of a woman found from a deserted place near Islamabad-D.I. Khan motorway in Dhoke Malkan near Nehlud in the limits of Pindigheb police station on Saturday.

Police sources said some passersby spotted a body lying at a deserted place and informed police. On getting information, police shifted the body to THQ hospital for autopsy.

According to police investigators, the woman’s body was two to three days old and had torture marks and later shot multiple times on various parts of body somewhere else and later thrown her body there.

The body was not identified till filing of this news report. Pindigheb police have registered a murder case against unknown assailants and started investigation.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2023

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