Five-year old girl hanged after ‘rape’

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NAROWAL, Nov 14: A five-year old girl was hanged to death after ‘rape’ at Talwandi Kahloan village in the Saddar police station precinct on Monday night.

Reports said Zeenat, a student of nursery, went out of her home but did not return until late at night.

Her parents and other members of the family moved from place to place to find her out but to no avail.

On Tuesday morning, they found the girl hanging with a tree outside the village. Her clothes were bloodstained.

The police suspected that the girl might have been killed after rape. The residents of the area have expressed anguish over the incident and demanded that the police should arrest the culprit(s) without delay.

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