Body of septuagenarian found 3 months after death

Police say Ayub, abandoned by family, lived alone in a single room quarter

KARACHI:

With familial and social bonds breaking down in the modern era, abandoning old people is becoming dangerously common which is a very serious issue and its gravity can be gauged by the fact that more and more bodies of old people are being found days after their death.

Police were called in to remove the remains of a septuagenarian from a shack where he was living alone for the past few years.

Muhammad Ayub, 72, had died almost three months ago in his bed, his body lay there unattended, no one cared where he was, no one even bothered to peep into his single room shack, it seems that his family and neighbours had abandoned him, Korangi police station SHO Farooq Sanjrani told The Express tribune.

"Ayub's body was in an advance stage of decomposition and we had to call Edhi volunteers to move the remains to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for legal formalities," SHO Sanjarani said adding the body will be kept in morgue for the time being as police will search for the heirs.

He said Ayub had not died at a desolate place, rather a teeming neighbourhood of

Meanwhile, a human skeleton was found in a plot near Korangi No3 near a famous local eatery, the Malangi Hotel.

Meanwhile, The body of a person who died mysteriously was found near Malir Saudabad Liaquat Market. According to Saudabad police, the deceased was identified as 56-year-old

Rafiq Ahmed, 56, was found dead near Liaquat Market in the Saudabad area of Malir. He had died of natural causes. Police handed over the body to the heirs after legal formalities

Unidentified bodies

A man aged around 72 years was found dead on a footpath in Block 13-D of Gulshan-e-Iqbal. Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station duty officer Muhamamd Ramzan said that there was no sign of trauma or injury on the body and it seems that the elderly person died of natural causes.

However, the deceased was not carrying any card or document to ascertain his identitiy. Police have kept the body at the Edhi morgue.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25^th, 2022.