Dawn menyatakan jasad itu dimasukkan karung, sementara kepalanya tergeletak di luar disertai lampiran catatan berbahasa Urdu, yang menyebut korban adalah guru madrasah Afgan di daerah resah Waziristan Utara, Pakistan.
Dawn said the body was stuffed into a sack while the head lay in the open and an attached Urdu-language note identified the victim as an Afghan teacher of a madrassa in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan region.