GUJRANWALA: The medical reports of two teenage girls shot dead in Gujranwala on September 26 revealed Friday that they had been raped, DawnNews reported.

According to the doctors at District Headquarters Hospital Gujranwala, preliminary medical reports suggested that the victims had been subjected to sexual abuse.

The two girls aged between 14-15 years had been shot dead near Madan Chak on the outskirts of a village in Gujranwala. Moreover, five bullets had also been recovered from the site of incident.

The dead bodies had been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Gujranwala for post-mortem.

In a separate incident, the body of a teenaged schoolgirl was also found on Karachi’s Seaview beach on September 26.

The autopsy report of the girl confirmed that she was “sodomised”, a medico-legal officer informed Dawn.com on condition of anonymity.

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