‘Death by massage’: police arrest serial killer masseur

The Lahore police have arrested a serial killer identified as Ejaz alias Jajji, who killed his victims by giving them massages.

According to a report in The Express Tribune, the accused confessed to killing five people during initial interrogation. The police revealed that Jajji worked as a masseur (a person who provides massage professionally) and used his profession to lure victims. He would convince his clients to go to a deserted place to avail his services and would snap their neck bone or stab them to death while giving them a massage.

After murdering them, he would rob them of their valuables and escape.

Jajji murdered at least four men in Lahore and also confessed to committing a murder in Rawalpindi. While he has now been nabbed by the police, the search for his two accomplices is still underway.

The police said that though this case was unique, it was not unheard of. They explained that masseurs are experts in veins and blood pressure points in the body that are closely linked with the nervous system. In the past, dozens of cases have been reported in which people were rendered unconscious using massaging techniques so that swindlers could loot their ‘clients’. The practise is reportedly common in areas like Data Darbar and Yadgar. Such looting tactics are locally known as “applying formula”.

The police expressed their concern over this new trend of murdering people and said that they are investigating it.