Dumped: Two bodies found in Satellite Town

Victims received multiple bullet wounds in head and chest, but were not tortured, local police officer says.

QUETTA: Police found two bodies on the street in the city’s Mehmoodabad area in Satellite Town on Monday. The identities of the victims could not be established even after their bodies were moved to the Provincial Sandeman Hospital for autopsies. One of the victims is aged between 15 and 18 years, while the second is in his mid-40s. “The victims received multiple bullet wounds in the head and chest. They were not tortured,” local police officer Imran Qureshi told The Express Tribune, adding that the two were determined to be of Pashtun ethnicity. “It is not clear whether they were killed in Satellite Town or if only their bodies were dumped there,” Qureshi added.  He said eyewitnesses had not come forward to record their statements and it was unclear if the two victims were Pakistani or Afghan nationals.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 21^st, 2014.