Two hanged for assaulting boy

Published May 10, 2007

MULTAN, May 9: Two men convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering an eight-year-old boy were hanged on Wednesday after President Pervez Musharraf turned down their pleas for clemency, jail officials said.

The pair was executed before dawn at a prison in Mianwali, jail superintendent Ghulam Dastgir said.

Riaz Hussain Shah, 38, and Nadeem Ahmed, 30, were convicted by an anti-terrorism court in November, 1998 for raping and murdering the boy and then burning his corpse in the rural town of Bhera, he said.—AFP

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