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| Slain Pak tribal leader's body found: Report | | | ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Army personnel, who are searching a cave in which Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akhtar Bugti was killed, have reportedly found his body.
"His body is lying under a heavy boulder in the cave and the head of the body was spotted by two soldiers who crawled deep into the cave, which collapsed in an explosion in a military operation on August 25," local daily The News quoted officials as saying.
However, the report also quoted Pakistan's Defence Spokesman Maj. Gen Shaukat Sultan as saying that "the information is not correct".
It was expected to take some time to retrieve the body, the reports said.
Bugti, a 79-year-old ethnic-Baluch politician and militia leader, was killed Saturday during fierce fighting between his supporters and Pakistani forces at his mountain cave where he had been holed up since December.
A team of engineers from the Pakistan Army are currently excavating the cave near Kohlu in southwest Balochistan province to retrieve the bodies of Bugti and his associates as protests continued to rock Balochistan and parts of Karachi over his killing and the Government's failure to hand over the body.
Bugti's family and supporters have already held funeral prayers without his body at Quetta two days ago amid heavy violence.
Sultan told the media two days ago that a explosion within the cave resulted in the collapse of the cave even as the army officials rushed in, perhaps to talk to him or apprehend him. |
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