KARACHI: A minor boy was allegedly raped and murdered on the outskirts of the metropolis on Saturday evening, police and hospital officials said.

They added that the body of a six-year-old boy was found from bushes in Soomar Goth within the remit of the Steel Town police station.

Area SHO Shaur Khan Bangash said that the boy was strangled to death.

He said a neighbour of the victim had been identified as the suspected killer. He managed to escape, but efforts were under way to arrest him, he added.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for a post-mortem examination and to ascertain whether the child was subjected to a criminal assault.

Dr Summaiya Syed, the additional police surgeon at the health facility, confirmed that the six-year-old was subjected to rape before being murdered.

“There were multiple abrasions all over the body,” she said, adding that samples collected for DNA matching.

Man shot dead

A young man was shot dead on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.

The SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area police said that Mir Ahmed, 26, was killed by unknown persons at Hingora Goth off Superhighway.

The police suspected some personal enmity behind the murder.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for completing medico-legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2022

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