NAUDERO: A five-year-old girl was raped and killed in Larkana’s Naudero district on Monday.
The police reported that the suspect allegedly lured the minor girl to a deserted area near the town’s railway station and strangled her to death after raping her, and proceeded to dispose of her body in a pool of water.
The girl’s body was recovered and taken to a taluka hospital in Naudero where Dr Ghazanfar Khokhar and Dr Salma Katpar conducted a postmortem examination. An initial check-up confirmed both the sexual assault and strangulation of the minor girl.
The suspect, who was arrested during police raids in the area, confessed to the crime during interrogation, Station House Officer Sartaj Jagirani told local journalists.
He added that both the victim and the accused were residents of the Ghurghal Shah locality of the town and that a detailed inquiry into the incident was underway.
Police registered a case against the suspect on the complaint of the girl’s father under sections 302 and 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code and sections six and seven of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The girl’s body was handed over to her parents for burial following the autopsy
