Peshawar reports second case of minor girl’s murder

Police yet to crack earlier blind murder of 11-year-old

PESHAWAR:

Police inaction is contributing to the continuing brutal killings of innocent minor girls in Peshawar’s Saddar Division.

A second case was reported on Monday while the police are yet to apprehend the suspects in the murder case of the 11-year-old who was brutally killed in the same division earlier this month.

The 11-year-old girl, who had gone to a nearby store to buy some groceries, was found dead in Peshawar's Saddar Railway Colony on Monday.

As per details, the girl's body was found in a nearby plot hours after she had gone missing. Mohammad Nazir, the father of the victim, said that he had sent her to buy niswar but she did not come despite the passage of several hours.

The girl's body was found late in the night with a fresh wound on her head as well as bruises around her neck.

Police officials said that the colony has around 40 houses in which many railway employees from Punjab and other parts of the country reside.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 19^th, 2022.