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DNA tests conducted on body found in Pakistan

Pakistani authorities have conducted DNA tests on samples taken from a dismembered body discovered on the outskirts of Karachi which they believe are the remains of murdered US reporter Daniel Pearl.

A police investigator said samples of teeth, hair, bones and blood stains were being sent to Lahore for DNA testing.

Pakistani authorities found the decapitated body on Friday buried on a vacant plot of land near the blood-stained hut where he was apparently murdered after being abducted on January 23.

A video of Daniel Pearl being beheaded was sent to the United States consulate in Karachi in February after the reporter disappeared while investigating a story on Islamic militancy in Pakistan.

20/05/2002 00:11:08 | ABC Radio Australia News

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