JEHLUM: The autopsy report of British Pakistani woman Samia Shahid has been released on Friday that suggests that she was strangled to death because doctors say there was a bruise around her neck.
The investigations has been carried out since Samia’s husband Mukhtar filed case against Samia’s father and family for killing her in the name of ‘honour’ earlier this week.
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Consequently, this report proves his father’s and maternal uncle Imran’s claims wrong that she died of natural causes and wasn’t killed.
The report says that, “there is a horizontal mark on the right-hand side of the neck of reddish discolouration,” according to The Telegraph. Along bruise around the neck a few millimeters in width can be seen in the photographs included in the report.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a senior doctor at a government hospital in Jhelum said, “The cause of death looks like strangulation of the neck with a narrow rope-like object.” The report, however, is preliminary, and the official cause of death will not be established until next week. The police had initially told the media that the post-mortem report showed no external injuries.
The couple, both British-Pakistani dual citizens, had been married for two years and was living in Dubai. According to the police, it was Samia Shahid’s second marriage. Mukhtar, her second husband, alleges that the family was unhappy with his wife’s divorce and remarriage to him, and had tricked her into returning to Pakistan by falsely claiming that her father was unwell, in order to kill her.
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Her family denies the claim and her father insists she died of natural causes. Further, police are also searching for her Shahid’s passport which is of considerable importance to the investigation. Shahid’s father claims that she arrived from Britain, while her husband claims that she arrived from Dubai, police said.
Police have also searched the home of Shahid’s friend, Ambreen, with whom she was alleged to have stayed when she arrived in Pakistan. Ambreen has, however, denied the claim.
