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Cops Open A Flat In Karachi Find Dismembered Body Parts, Woman Sleeping

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The police officials said that on being questioned, the woman first asserted that the victim was her husband Muhammad Sohail but later she denied they were married, claiming the man was her brother-in-law.

Karachi: At a Karachi’s flat, a dismembered body parts of a 70-year-old man were found scattered at a flat in Karachi. A woman at the flat was found asleep at the crime scene. The woman is the prime suspect and is under police arrest.

“We got a call… that parts of a human hand were seen lying near a flat in an old apartment building in Saddar area. When our team reached and opened the flat they found the woman in deep asleep, with some parts of a human body lying close to her and other dismembered parts spread all over the flat,” said Senior Police Officer Zubair Nazeer Sheikh.

The 45-year old woman is the prime suspect in the case The date of the murder is yet to be ascertained, though it is likely to have been committed this week.

“The woman has been arrested as we found evidence including her blood-stained clothes and the equipment used to dismember the body,” Zubair Sheikh said. The police had found the murder weapons – a knife and hammer and other blunt metal instruments, from the crime scene.

The police officials said that on being questioned, the woman first asserted that the victim was her husband Muhammad Sohail but later she denied they were married, claiming the man was her brother-in-law.

The woman was found in a completely intoxicated state,  according to a report in Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper.

Zubair Sheikh said the woman’s calmness in the interrogation was “astonishing”.

Further investigation is underway. Meanwhile, the neighbors have indicated at a “live-in” arrangement, saying the woman would often stay days together with the man and that they quarrelled very often over money.

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