HARIPUR: A woman was found dead in a remote village of the Beer union council here on Sunday evening.

The police identified her as Shakila Bibi, a 35-year-old of five children.

He husband, Akhtar Nawaz, works as a restaurant cook in Lahore.

The deceased’s father-in-law, Siraj Mohammad of Chahjaka village, told police that Shakila Bibi went missing at around 5pm on Dec 21.

He said he and other family members searched for her, but to no avail.

The man said villagers found the woman’s body along the Tarbela Lake on Sunday evening.

The police said the body didn’t carry any mark of torture or firearm injury suggesting that the woman had committed suicide. They said investigation into the death was under way.