Body found in canal
Victim had been tortured before murder
LAHORE:
A body covered in a sack and floating in a canal was recovered from River Ravi in Raiwind City on Tuesday.
A passerby spotted the body floating in Ludheki Canal and informed the police. A team reached the spot and fished it out.
The body was a few days old and had decomposed, police said.
The victim, who could not be identified as yet, had been brutally tortured before he was murdered and his body dumped into the canal, circumstantial evidence suggested.
Police in November had also recovered the body of a married girl who had been abducted a month ago.
It was found that she had been raped before being murdered.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2022.