Staff Reporter
A 20-year-old girl succumbed to serious injuries in hospital one day after being subjected to rape by a group of unidentified men. The police said that the incident in Chachran Sharif, a suburban area of Punjab’s Rahim Yar Khan district. Relatives of the girl said that she was allegedly gang-raped and brutally tortured after being abducted. Police officials detailed that the girl, who went missing from her home, was found in severely injured condition from farms. They said that she was in critical condition and passed away after one day after the incident.
Police said that a case was registered against three men. The police officials claimed that it was an assassination bid and she was stabbed after being strangled.
Sources of Sheikh Zayed Hospital told ARY News that the cause of her death was suffocation, whereas, the doctors found torture marks on her body.
Punjab Inspector General of Police Inam Ghani took notice of the incident and sought a report from Regional Police Officer (RPO) Bahawalpur besides ordering the police forces to take strict action against the criminals.
