KOHAT: Three people allegedly sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy in a building in Mohallah Waizan here on Thursday.

Area SHO Vaqar Khan said an FIR was registered on the complaint of the victim’s father. The boy said that the three accused had taken him to an abandoned building where he was subjected to sexual abuse.

He narrated the whole incident to his father who took him to the city police station where a case was filed.

Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2023

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