Ghotki fears a trend as police finds four more dead bodies

Author: Our Correspondent

Ghotki Police found at least four dead bodies with bullet wounds in heads in Sarhad police station jurisdiction in Sindh on Wednesday morning.

Locals alerted police after spotting bodies at under a National Highway bridge at Saleemabad village near Sarhad Umar Daho in Ghotki. However, sources relayed that police reached the crime scene late.

The dead were identified as Qari Muhammad Jehangir, Hafizullah, Baitullah and Abdul Rauf, who hailed from Dera Ghazi Khan and Shekhupura districts of Punjab and Dera Ismail Khan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. All four slain men were wearing shalwar kameez.

Officials claimed that all four were killed with bullets in their heads.

Police identified two murdered victims from their identity cards and two from the chits pinned on them by the killers.

The police have shifted the dead bodies to Ghotki hospital for autopsy and claim to provide more details upon receiving its report.

Ghotki police have launched a preliminary investigation of the crime.

In a similar incident, police found three dead bodies in Mirpur Mathelo in Ghotki district in January. The slain were shot dead by firing bullets into the head and identified as Abdul Malik from Pakpattan, Abu Bakr from Kurram Agency and Yasir from Hafizabad.

Published in Daily Times, March 21^st2019.