TAXILA: Two persons allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl in village Haji Shah of Attock on Tuesday.

The victim’s father told police that his daughter left the house to bring milk.

On her way to the shop two persons forcibly took her to their house and raped her.

They let her go later after threatening her of dire consequences.

The victim told her grandmother about the incident.

She was taken to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital where it was confirmed that she has been raped, police said.

Woman ‘sexually assaulted’

A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by her relative for a month in Lakhan colony in Rawalpindi, police said.

The rape victim reported the incident to the police, saying that she is married and had three children.

She said that her father’s cousin Akram came to her house and asked her to accompany her to his house as his wife was seriously ill.

She said that as she entered Akram’s house, she found nobody was there at that time.

She said Akram ignored her pleadings and shut the door from the inside and raped her.

He then threatened her if she revealed the incident he would kill her children and had repeatedly raped her for a month.

Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2022

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