NAWABSHAH, Feb 26 A teenage girl stage dancer was kidnapped from the shrine of Syed Mehmood Shah in Shahpur Jehanian near Doulatpur and brutally murdered on Thursday.

Samina, 15, daughter of Khair Mohammed Solangi, was kidnapped when she was at the fair at the shrine. Police later found her naked body near the shrine.

Sources in police said that the girl had been sexually assaulted and her body carried visible marks of torture.

Doulatpur police moved the body to Shahpur Jehanian health centre and then shifted it to Doulatpur health centre for post mortem because there was no female doctor in Shahpur Jehanian.

Doulatpur DSP Fida Leghari said one Haji Umeed Ali Solangi, relative of the girl, had been arrested on suspicion. No FIR was lodged till the filing of this report.

Meanwhile, the body of a man identified as Ghulam Hyder Khoso, 46, was found hanging from a tree near Jam Sahab road in the jurisdiction of B-Section police station on Thursday.

The body was brought to People's Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

No FIR was lodged till filing of this report.