Goa Police scanning missing persons’ complaints

After 10 dead bodies were found in a span of few days, Goa Police are scanning the entire list of people reported missing in the state since October 1, a senior official said. Of the people reported missing in various police stations, two women were murdered and five others traced. Bodies of the two women who were murdered at Merces and Verna villages were found burnt.

Police in the tourist state have recovered 10 bodies in the last few days, eight of them found murdered since Monday. Superintendent of Police Atmaram Deshpande said the missing complaints are being thoroughly scanned.

Police records reveal that since beginning of this month, nine persons, six of them women, were missing from North Goa. Amongst them, a woman was found murdered while two were traced. In South Goa, five men were missing of which one has been traced.