Murder most foul: Two missing minors found dead in Kotli

Bodies found in gorge in village Tain, police confirm minors were tortured and killed

MUZAFFARABAD:

Bodies of two minors who went missing on Saturday were found in Khoiratta area of Kotli district in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.

Police say the six-year-old Akash Razzaq and seven-year-old Khalid Bashir went missing after their school on Saturday.

The people found their bodies in a gorge in village Tain on Sunday morning. The bodies were shifted to Primary Health Centre Khoiratta for post-mortem. Police later said that they were tortured and killed.

Razzaq was a student of grade two while Bashir studied in grade three at a private school in Tain. They were laid to rest on Sunday.

The police have registered an FIR against the unknown culprits.

Bodies of two brothers found

Meanwhile bodies of two brothers, identified as Muhammad Noman, 16, and Muhammad Asad, eight, were found from a green belt near the IJ Principal Road in the limits of Sabzi Mandi Police Station on Sunday.

A spokesperson of the police revealed that unidentified men shot dead both the brothers and dumped their bodies in the greenbelt.

The victims, residents of Degree College area in Rawalpindi, were missing since Saturday night and the bodies were found a day later from the greenbelt, said the police.

The bodies were taken to the Pims and later handed over to their family.

Additional reporting from our correspondent in Islamabad

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2014.