A minor girl who was abducted from Badin city a week ago was gang raped and killed near Tando Ghulam Ali town of Badin district, police said Monday.
Tando Ghulam Ali police on a tip-off raided a bus coming from Chambar, arrested two suspects and recovered the body of the eight-year-old girl early Monday.
Station House Officer (SHO) Tando Ghulam Ali Dhani Buksh Marri told reporters that during preliminary questioning both suspects confessed that they had kidnapped the minor girl and had raped her for seven days. They also confessed strangling her to death later.
Another police official said that the victim might have died due to profuse bleeding that resulted from repeated rape.
The girl’s body was shifted to Rural Health Centre Tando Ghulam Ali.
One of the suspects who was apprehended while dressed as a woman confessed that he and his accomplice had abducted five minor girls and killed them after subjecting them to rape, the official said.
The suspects used to bury their victims in a graveyard near Matli, the official said.
SHO Marri said both accused would be handed over to Chambar police for further investigation. He said their latest victim was abducted from Badin’s Golrachi Bypass Road area.
The victim’s father later told reporters that his daughter went missing a week before and has demanded “exemplary punishment” for her killers.
