12-year-old’s death shrouded in mystery

On Friday she went to supply milk and never returned home


Our Correspondent April 09, 2017
PHOTO COURTESY: HINDUSTAN TIMES

SUKKUR: Ghotki police have yet to resolve the mystery of the death of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found near a drain in Qadirpur on Friday night.

According to reports, 12-year-old Asima, daughter of Mehram Bhutto, used to supply milk in the nearby area.

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On Friday she went to supply milk and never returned home and after around four hours of her disappearance, her body was found near a drain in the locality.

Local police shifted her body to taluka hospital Ghotki, where the doctors said that she had sustained a head injury, which might have resulted in her death.

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Some of the women of the area who performed the girl’s last rites told Ghotki-based reporters that wounds were visible on her head, neck and back.

On contact, the A Section police station Ghotki’s Assistant Head Constable, Abdul Hafeez, said no case has been lodged.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 9th, 2017.

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