Chinese National Murdered
Pakistan: Chinese national murdered, hanged in Karachi's Port Qasim
Karachi, Pakistan/IBNS: A Chinese national was murdered and his body was 'hanged' in a room at Port Qasim area on the outskirts of Pakistan's Karachi city recently, media reports said on Saturday.
The Chinese national has been identified as Li Wenzhang who reportedly arrived in Karachi six months ago.
His body was found inside a power station at the Port Muhammad Bin Qasim, reports Samaa TV.
The port officials believed that he had died by suicide. They moved the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) to obtain a death certificate, Samaa TV reported.
JPMC Additional Police Surgeon (APS) Dr Sumaiyya Syed told Samaa Digital that the port officials strongly believed that it was a death by suicide but medicolegal officials thought otherwise.
“The port officials were insisting not to perform postmortem, but medico-legal section refused to issue a certificate and to declar it a death by suicide,” the APS told SAMAA Digital.
“The postmortem has been completed and the cause of the death has been reserved,” she said.
The police officials shared with the police surgeon a video that shows the body hanged by the door of a room, she added.
The 53-year-old Chinese national was murdered and later hanged, the police surgeon told the news channel.
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