KARACHI: A woman doctor was found murdered in her Bahadurabad home on Friday, police said.

They said that the partially decomposed body of a woman, later identified as Dr Amtullah, 58, was found from a house in Bahadurabad. The body had lain there for around three days. It was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination to ascertain the exact cause of death.

Police Surgeon Qarar Ahmed Abbasi said that the post-mortem examination revealed signs of strangulation. Apparently, the victim was strangled, but doctors reserved the cause of death till the report of a chemical examiner to ascertain whether she was given poison before strangulation.

Dr Abbasi said that Amtullah Sheikha, daughter of Ghulam Abbas Kapadia, was a doctor by profession. She was a general surgeon and worked at different hospitals in the metropolis.

Newspaper: Dawn