KARACHI: Body found

Published April 27, 2008

KARACHI, April 26: The bullet-riddled body of a young man was found on Saturday at a desolate place near Sohrab Goth.

New Karachi Industrial Area police said some labourers saw the trussed up body in the bushes and it was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Hospital sources said the man, clad in shalwar-qameez, was in his mid 20s. They said the young man received two bullets and the body also bore marks of torture. The body was kept at the Edhi morgue for identification.—Staff Reporter

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