Missing persons: Three bullet-riddled bodies recovered

Victims were shot in the head and their bodies bore multiple marks of torture: official.

QUETTA: Three more Baloch missing persons’ bodies were recovered on Tuesday as Balochistan Levies found their bullet-riddled bodies from the Kech and Panjgur districts, respectively.

The bodies were later identified as Abid Saleem, Mehrab and Abdul Hameed who had been listed missing since January 23, 2011 from the Panjgur district.

“Two bodies were dumped near a seasonal river in the Pidrak area close to Morghab in the Kech district. The victims were shot in the head and the bodies also bore multiple marks of torture,” an official in the Kech district revealed.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 25^th, 2011.