LAHORE/QUETTA: The five dead bodies found in Turbat were sent to their respective hometowns on Sunday after they were transferred to Lahore from Karachi.
An Edhi Foundation spokesperson said the bodies— shifted to a morgue in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth on Sunday—were bathed and then sent to Jinnah International Airport.
The bodies found during a search operation in Turbat were identified as those of Usman Qadir, Danish Ali, Badar Munir, Saqib Ali and Qasim—all the victims belonged to Gujrat.
According to Balochistan government spokesperson, these five were also shot dead the same day as other fifteen people, whose bodies were found on Wednesday in Turbat. The deceased were said to be residents of Punjab who were being sent to Europe, via Iran, illegally through human smuggling agents.
On Friday, the army claimed the death of one of the people involved in the killing of the 15 men in an operation by the Frontier Corps.
FIA ARREST HUMAN TRAFFICKER LINKED TO DECEASED: Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a key human trafficker linked with the Turbat killings in Quetta.
FIA Deputy Director Khalid Anees said that the human trafficker, Sadiq alias Talib, was detained on a tip-off provided by his under-custody cohort Waheed.
The detainee posed himself to be an Iranian national and he used to take Pakistanis across the Iran border. The victims of Turbat massacre belonging to various cities of Punjab stayed with Sadiq at Quetta who then transported them to Turbat.