DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A minor boy was found dead in an agricultural field in Zafarabad Colony here, a police official said on Monday.

He said Shah Nawaz Sial of Zafarabad Colony complained to police that his son, 11, went to the Ilyasia Masjid in the neighborhood last night to offer Taraweeh prayers but didn’t return.

The family searched in vain for the boy, according to him.

The official said wheat grower Malik Mehboob Hussam informed the police about the murder of the child on Monday morning insisting the body lied in the agricultural fields of his brother Malik Farooq Hussam.

He said the medical teams of Rescue 1122 shifted the body to Mufti Mahmood Teaching Hospital, whose doctors performed a postmortem and sent samples from the body to the lab for forensic test.

The postmortem report revealed that the child was sexually abused before being strangled.

The police said they’re investigating the murder.

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2024