KARACHI: A four-year-old girl was found brutally murdered in Orangi Town on Saturday morning, according to the Mominabad police.

The officials said the body was found in a garbage dump in Sector-10 near Taj Lasi shop. “Her hands and legs were torched,” said Momin­abad SHO Chaudhry Tufail.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination. The autopsy report was reserved for a chemical analysis, while DNA samples were collected for identification, said the police officer.

Published in Dawn, June 21st, 2015

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