The Department of Foreign Affairs was on Sunday looking into reports that the body of a murdered South African national had been found in a plastic bag on the outskirts of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, it said.
”We have contacted the South African mission there [in Pakistan] to investigate this matter and we will await their response,” said departmental spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa.
On Sunday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the body of a 26-year-old man was found in the plastic bag — of a type normally used for farming — in Peshawar’s Baboo Garhi suburbs, local police investigator Kachkol Khan said.
According to the passport found in his pocket, the man was identified as Kenneth Scott Andrew, a resident of Durban, Khan said, adding that he had entered Peshawar on January 1 this year on a tourist visa.
Police were treating the case as murder, Khan said.
Doctors who carried out a post-mortem on the body said that the man had no firearm injury or knife wounds, and they suspected that he had been given some poisonous material.
”We have taken the samples and sent [them] to the forensic lab in Lahore. It appears that he vomited blood before his death,” a doctor who had conducted the autopsy said. — Sapa