Bodies of teenage boys yet to be identified

Police says all resources are being utilised to find the culprits

RAWALPINDI:

The bodies of two young boys, who were found dead a day before Eid near Brahma Interchange on Motorway in Taxila area, could not be identified.

Unidentified assailants killed two teenage boys and dumped their bodies on the motorway within the Taxila police station limits.

Police said that unknown assailants killed the two boys and dumped their bodies on the motorway. The identity of the victims, aged between eight and 12 years old, could not be ascertained during the initial investigation, sources said. Police have collected evidence from the crime scene while the bodies were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Taxila for an autopsy.

Police said that all resources were being utilised to find the culprits involved in the tragic murder.

Sources said that at the request of the Rawalpindi police, the Punjab police chief has sent letters to provinces, including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, to identify the children. Despite making announcements at Afghan refugee camps, no one came forward to identify the children.

Among the victim is a seven-to-eight-year-old boy who is wearing a maroon coloured shalwar-kameez and the 10-to 12-year-old boy is wearing a white shalwar-kameez.

A senior police officer said that the data has been shared with the K-P police and other provinces for the identification of the children, while Rawalpindi police also visited different refugee camps to complete the process of identification of the children.

Police have also displayed photographs of the children at all police stations of Punjab, K-P, Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th, 2022.