MARDAN: In a bid to catch the rapist and murderer of a four-year-old girl in Mardan, Police on Thursday informed that DNA samples of 243 suspects were being cross-matched with those recovered from the body of the deceased girl.
Talking to a private news outlet, Mardan Regional Police Officer Alam Shinwari confirmed that the police have received the victim’s DNA report, in light of which further steps are being taken. “The specimen samples taken for analysis and cross-matching purposes have been forwarded to the relevant department.”
The DNA samples of the suspects, which also include close relatives of the victim, have been sent to the forensic science laboratory in Lahore for cross-matching as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police do not have the facilities required to conduct such tests, the RPO added.
According to Shinwari, the cross-matching will help police identify the culprit(s) behind the gruesome crime.
The victim was abducted from outside her home on January 13 by an unknown assailant. She was found dead a day later in a nearby sugarcane field.