A South African murdered in Pakistan has been identified as Kenneth Smith (26), the country’s 10km open-water swimming champion, Beeld reported on Tuesday.
His name was initially given by Pakistani police as Kenneth Scott Andrew of Durban when his body was found in a suburb of the frontier town of Peshawar on Sunday.
Smith’s family said they were not aware that he was in Pakistan. He had said he was going to Dubai to look for a job.
Mahmood Afridi, the editor of Peshawar newspaper the Frontier Post, said Babu Garhi is a seedy area where several criminal gangs are active. – Sapa