MURREE: A teenage girl from Dhal Phaqwarri was allegedly gang-raped by eight people, according to an FIR registered with the Murree police.

The 17-year-old victim lodged an application with the police, Murree Station House Officer (SHO) Mohammad Khudadad confirmed.

She has nominated eight people in the case, and has alleged that she was first assaulted by these very people when she was in the fifth grade.

The victim also alleged that the suspects made videos of her. She said she later got married, and after she was married she was abducted by the suspects and taken to the Lora village in Hazara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where she was assaulted.

SHO Khudadad said the police are investigating the case.

Published in Dawn, February 1st, 2018

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