TAXILA: A teenage girl was abducted while three persons were arrested for trashing a married woman in two different incidents in the limits of Hassanabdal police station on Saturday.

According to police sources, in the first incident, a woman has reported to police that she went to work as a house maid when a man abducted her 18-year-old daughter.

Separately, a mother of three a native of Khawajanagar, reported to police that her husband has been in Attock jail for the last two years. She said that she was sleeping with her three children in her house when three persons came to her house and tried to occupy the upper portion of the house and when she resisted they trashed her besides tearing her clothes.

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2024

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