KELLA ABDULLAH: An eight-year-old boy, whose body was found hanging from a tree, was murdered after allegedly being raped in Balochistan’s Killa Abdullah district.
According to Killa Abdullah Assistant Commissioner Jahanzeb Sheikh, unidentified culprits raped and strangled the child to death in the Kali Davian area in the suburbs of Killa Abdullah.
A search for the child had launched two days ago (on Wednesday) after he left his madrassah temporarily but did not return to the seminary nor reached his home.
The official said his body was later found hanging from a tree on Wednesday evening, Sheikh said, adding that a first information report was registered the same day against unidentified persons and authorities were carrying out a search operation to arrest them.
The report of a post-mortem examination performed on the child in Quetta proved that two people had sexually assaulted him, he added.
In March, a report by the Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Sahil, had revealed that the violence has continued, and an estimated eight children per day have been abused in the first half of 2020.
A total of 2,846 child abuse cases were reported from across the country in 2019, with data showing that more than eight children suffered some form of abuse every day in Pakistan in the first half of 2020.
