Body fragments of 70-year-old man found in Karachi; Woman ‘sleeping’ lying next to severed hands

In an incident of shocking brutality, body pieces of a 70-year-old man were found scattered outside a flat here and a woman who was found to be “deep asleep” at the crime scene have been arrested as prime suspects. , Pakistani police officials said on Friday, “We got a call… Parts of a human’s hand were lying near a flat in an old apartment building in Sadar area. When our team reached and opened the flat, they found the woman. Seen in deep sleep, senior police officer Zubair Nazir Shaikh said with some parts, “a human body lying beside him and other dismembered parts spread all over the flat.”

A 45-year-old woman, who was not named, has been marked as the prime suspect in the case. The date of the murder is yet to be ascertained, although it is likely to have been committed this week. “The woman has been arrested as we have found evidence including her blood-stained clothes and the equipment used to dismember her body,” Sheikh said. The police team found a knife, a hammer and other blunt metal tools at the crime scene.