Woman killed in alleged stone attack by in-laws
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Girl's body recovered from canal
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Photo: File
The body of a 23-year-old girl was discovered bound with ropes in a canal in Chak 535 GB on Monday.
Villagers spotted the floating body and alerted the police, who reached the scene, took the body into custody.
Police said unidentified assailants allegedly tortured the young woman before strangling her and binding her body with ropes.
Villagers discovered the body floating in the canal and informed the police.
Authorities arrived at the scene, recovered the body and shifted it to a nearby hospital for examination.
The deceased, approximately five feet tall, was wearing a slightly torn blue cotton floral shalwar kameez. Police have begun announcements in local mosques to locate her relatives while launching a search for the unidentified suspects.
A case under Sections 302 and 201 of the Pakistan Penal Code has been registered at Dijikot Police Station, with Muhammad Sajjad Ahmed as the complainant. In a separate incident on the third day of Eid, a domestic dispute turned deadly in Subhanallah Chowk, Gulam Muhammadabad.
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