Balochistan: 10 dead bodies recovered near Quetta buried in hast without identification

 Balochistan: 10 dead bodies recovered near Quetta buried in hast without identification

QUETTA: At least ten mutilated dead bodies were found in Dasht Tera Mill in Quetta on Tuesday and have been hurriedly buried without ascertaining their identity.

According to details, the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons in their social media messages has said that the volunteers of Edhi Foundation – a charity organisation founded by late Abdul Sattar Edhi – have buried at least ten disfigured dead bodies in Tera Mill graveyard in Dasht area near Quetta.

The identity of the dead bodies could not be ascertained due to mutilation and disfigurement.

The Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Mr Nasrullah Baloch in his twitter message said:

‘10 more decomposed bodies are found in Quetta and they are buried with no DNA examination. We fear the bodies would the missing ones because hundreds of mutilated bodies discovered in the past belonged to the enforced-disappeared ones. The bodies must go to a DNA procedure.’

He also said that ‘every family of missing persons grieves for the unrecognised bodies’.

Mr Baloch has blamed the government of creating more disturbance for the families of Baloch missing persons instead of resolving the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

He said in 2013 a Supreme Court order to investigate each decomposed body was disregarded by the authorities.

Separately, a dead body was founded stuffed in a sack in Balochistan’s capital city Quetta on Tuesday, has been identified on Wednesday.

According to details, sources reported that a dead body in a sack was from in Eastern Bypass area of Quetta which was later shifted to civil Hospital by Edhi’s volunteers.

On Wednesday, the hospital sources confirmed the identity of the dead body as that of Shaukat Ali son of Saleh Mohammad Sarparah Baloch.

The victim was a resident of Musa Colony Quetta who originally hailed from Kardegap area in district Mastung Balochistan.

His family sources reported that he was a student of Degree College and also used work as dispenser as Yasin Hospital Quetta.

He has not returned home on 6 January and has been missing till Tuesday 7th of January.

It is not yet clear whether Shaukat was abducted by Pakistani security forces and killed in custody but previously the dead bodies of Baloch activists abducted by security forces were found in similar fashion in sacks.

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