Three Pakistani children raped and murdered, protests in Punjab’s Kasur district
Latest incident reminds of 6-year-old Zainab’s brutal rape, murder case in the same city.
Dubai: Police said that they have found bodies of three missing boys who were murdered after alleged rape.
The incident happened in Kasur district located some 52km south of Lahore in Punjab province of Pakistan. The murders and rape of these children are an uneasy reminder of the horrific rape and murder of six-year-old girl Zainab Ansari case, which lead to widespread outrage and protests across the country. Zainab’s body was found in a trash heap in Kasur in January 2018.
DNA tests
It was not immediately clear how the three children were killed but Kasur District Police Officer (DPO) Abdul Ghaffar Qaisrani said that the police suspected the victims were sexually assaulted before being murdered. More information will become evident once the postmortem examination of the remains is completed, he added. Police have sent the decomposed bodies for forensic investigation and DNA tests.
The latest case has sparked protests across the city of Kasur and neighbouring areas as markets were shut down on Wednesday while angry protesters also pelted stones at the police station and blocked traffic demanding for justice and immediate arrest of culprits.
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