Human skull recovered from abandoned place

Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 15:56 [IST]

Rajkot, Feb 27: The police have recovered a human skull from an abandoned place on Jamnagar road here.

Police today said they found the skull last evening after a dog dragged it from a nearby thick wood on Jamnagar road behind Railway colony.

Police has sent the skull to Forensic Scientific Laboratory (FSL) for a detailed investigation to determine the gender of the skull and to ascertain whether it was a case of murder or not, police added.

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