A teenage girl was allegedly stabbed with a knife by a motor-bike rider in the Federal B. Area of Karachi, police said on Monday night.

According to the senior superintendent of police (SSP) Central, Irfan Ali Baloch, the girl aged around 14-15 years was travelling on a motorbike with her brother when she was attacked near Askari Imambargah. The suspect fled after stabbing her in the back, Baloch said.

She has sustained injuries from the attack, he added. “The nature of the weapon used in the attack was not clear,” said the SSP.

Another official, Gulberg superintendent of police (SP) Abdullah Memon told Dawn that the police was informed of the incident by the girl's relatives after she was taken to a private hospital for treatment.

Memon said that he was on his way to the office and the crime scene to ascertain exact nature of the injury and the weapon used in the incident.

13 cases of 'knife attacks’ were reported to the police from September 25 to October 5 in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Gulshan-i-Iqbal area of the city by a ‘lone attacker riding a motorbike’.

The city police on Sunday claimed to have arrested a purported prime suspect, Waseem from Sahiwal with help of their counterparts there.

However, the held suspect could not be brought to Karachi for further legal action as Punjab police told their counterparts in Sindh that “they wanted to interrogate him for recent attacks on women in Sahiwal, Rawalpindi and recent Lahore first ”.

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