KARACHI: A 53-year old Chinese citizen was allegedly murdered and his body was hanged in a room at Port Qasim on the outskirts of Karachi.
Karachi police surgeon, who conducted the autopsy of the deceased and other officials said. The deceased Chinese citizen was identified as Li Wenzhang, 53, a national of the People’s Republic of China, who reached Karachi six months ago.
His body was found inside a K-Electric power station at the Port Muhammad Bin Qasim. The port officials believed that he had committed suicide and they moved the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) to obtain a death certificate, Samaa TV reported today.
However, the JPMC Additional Police Surgeon 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 declare it a death by suicide,” the APS said.
“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 was murdered and later hanged, the police surgeon said. The video shows Wenzhang propped against a room door with his feet touching the ground. A piece of cloth is wrapped around his neck and the top part of the door, holding him straight.
The police have already launched an investigation and have been recording statements of Wenzhang’s colleagues. Bin Qasim Police Station SHO Imran Afridi says a Crime Scene Unit have collected the evidence.
Meanwhile, police have also started investigating the incident as a murder and not as a suicide.
