Two held over girl’s rape, strangling

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MARDAN: The police claimed to have arrested here the other day two suspects over the recent rape and strangling of a minor girl in Fatu Kaly Sangao area.

District police officer retired captain Wahid Mehmood told reporters here that Mufti Habibur Rehman had formally complained to the Takhtbai police on August 7 about the mysterious disappearance of his five-year-old daughter.

He said the girl’s body was found next morning from the fields near her house.

The DPO said a police team collected blood samples from 426 local residents and sent them to laboratory for DNA test, while 23 suspects were interrogated. He said the interrogation found girl’s step-brother Khan Mohammad and Nasrullah to be involved in the crime.

The DPO said the postmortem and DNA test reports confirmed that the girl was raped.

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2018

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