Five men abducted a woman from a shrine and raped her in a union council office in Burewala, the police said. The police said the victim had come from Faisalabad to Burewala’s Sahuka town to visit the shrine of Baba Haji Sher Muhammad Dewan. The men abducted her from there.
They took her to a nearby union council office that was closed and raped her, the police said. Residents heard her screams for help and called the police.
The men were arrested. They have been identified as Mohammad Siddiq, Rasheed, Mumtaz, Zaheer and Ali Raza. A case has been registered. The survivor was taken to a hospital for a medical examination.
This is the third gang rape being reported from Punjab in less than two weeks.