CHARSADDA: Body of two-and-half-year-old missing girl was found in Jabba Korona area in the limits of Daudzai police station of Peshawar on Wednesday.

Residents and police said the minor girl had gone missing on Tuesday evening in Shiekh Kallay Qilla area while playing with other children outside her house.

Akhtar Munir, father of the girl, registered an FIR in the Prang police station, Charsadda, against unknown kidnappers. However, on Wednesday the Prang police got information about body of a girl lying in Jabba Korona area. The Prang and Daudzai police recovered the body and shifted it to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar for postmortem.

According to the police, the girl was stabbed to death.

DIG Mardan division Sher Akbar Khan, DPO Charsadda Mohammad Shoab Khan and other officials also reached the site of the incident.

Published in Dawn, October 8th, 2020