Shrouded in mystery: Four bullet-riddled bodies found

KARACHI: Police found bullet-riddled bodies of four men from the outskirts of the metropolis early Friday morning.

The bodies were found from the bushes on Link Road in Steel Town area in District Malir. The police suspected that unidentified persons dumped their bodies after killing them.

"All four victims had bullet wounds on their heads and were blindfolded," said District Malir SSP Rao Anwar. He said that the victims had no torture marks on their bodies and they might have been killed at an undisclosed location and later their bodies were dumped at the abandoned place.

The bodies were rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and, after completion of medico-legal formalities, were shifted to Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth for identification purposes. Three of the deceased had long beards whereas one of the victims had an artificial leg.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 21^st, 2017.