Mass slaughter: Police releases sketch of suspects

Police had found a sharp-edged dagger and a note from militants.

KARACHI: The police on Wednesday released sketches of two suspects it believes were involved in the gruesome slaughter of six men at a shrine in Gulshan-e-Maymar.

The bodies of the six men were found on Tuesday in a mud-house close to the Ayub Shah Shrine situated on a hillock located in the deserted area on the north-eastern outskirts of the city.

One of the custodians of the shrine, Jumman Shah Faqir found the bodies at around 11am when he returned to the place as per his routine. “With their slaughtered bodies, the mud-house was splattered with their blood,” he said.

One of the volunteers of an ambulance service, which reached the spot with police, said the heads of three victims were lying separately along with their bodies.

Police had found a sharp-edge dagger from the crime scene and discovered from one of the victims’ mouths a note – apparently from the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Fazalullah group.

“In the note, Taliban claimed responsibility for the killings and threatened that those who visit shrines could meet the same fate,” said Station House Officer Samad Khan.