SUKKUR: The bodies of a TikToker and her fiancé with torture marks were found lying in a car parked at a section of the old National Highway on Saturday.

The victims were identified as Seema Khaskheli and Zafar Abbas Hajano. The car was found parked near Irani Kosar Hospital, located along a section of the old National Highway, officials at the A-Section police station in Khairpur district said.

Initial inquiry suggested that the bodies were three days old and that the car was parked at the place two days ago.

The police shifted the bodies to the Khairpur Civil Hospital for a postmortem examination.

SHO Iqbal Noon said that the killers might have some enmity with the victims but it was too early to reach a conclusion about a motive.

However, the woman’s family linked the double murder to a matrimonial issue.

Hajano was a resident of the Rind Hajano village of Kotdiji taluka and Seema Khaskhli a resident of Khairpur’s Ghariabad Colony.

Seema’s parents told the media that she had married to Yaseen Indher, a resident of Pannu Aqil, but got divorced after falling in love with Hajano. “They were about to marry,” the parents said about Seema and Hajano.

They said that Seema had gone to Bazaar three days back and did not return home since then. They said they could not locate her despite a hectic search. It was not known if Seema’s family had reported the matter of her going missing at the police station of their area.

The parents said they came to know about their daughter’s fate only on Saturday when the police informed them about having found her body with that of Hajano in a car.

The police handed over the bodies to the heirs after a postmortem examination and other legal formalities. They said they were investigating the matter from different angles.

The deceased woman’s parents have appealed to the Sukkur DIG and Khairpur SSP to order a fair investigation into the double murder and help take the killers to task.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2024