KARACHI: A five-year-old girl was abducted, raped and tortured to death in Napier area on Sunday, police said.

City SP Sheraz Nazeer said the girl along with her parent came from Surjani Town to visit her maternal grandmother and she went missing on Friday evening. This was not reported to the police.

Napier SHO Azam Khan said her body was found on the staircase of an office of a political party near Noor Bibi building in Bheempura. The office has been closed for quite some time.

The body was shifted to Civil Hospital where doctors reserved the cause of her death, said a hospital official.

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