Sexually assaulted eight-year-old boy killed in Mastung
An eight-year-old boy hailing from Quetta’s Killi Raisani has been killed after being sexually assaulted in Balochistan’s Mastung district.
The deceased child was identified as Naseebullah. According to sources familiar with the matter, the boy was abducted from Western Bypass almost ten days ago in the capital city of Balochistan and tortured to death after being raped.
Upon being informed of the incident, the district administration sprang into action and Mastung Deputy Commissioner Maj (retd) Muhammad Iliyas Kibzai directed Assistant Commissioner Dasht Abdul Majeed Junejo to take immediate action.
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Levies force personnel along with Risaldar Mohammad Zehri reached the spot of the incident and took an accused person into custody for interrogation. The body of the child was shifted to the hospital for medico-legal formalities.
During the interrogation, the accused person disclosed that a man named Malik Wadood had picked up the child ten days ago and kept him in a house on Patel Road. He also said Gul Irfan, Zubair and Jalil had killed the child and his involvement was only limited to abducting the child.
The accused person was later handed over to SP Sariab.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 18th, 2021.