Tiktoker boy raped, killed in Sindh village

HYDERABAD:

A 15-year-old Tiktoker was allegedly raped and strangulated to death in village Bajar Khan Talpur in Tando Muhammad Khan district on Monday. According to the Shaikh Bhirkio police, unidentified psychopaths subjected Junaid Khaskheli to rape at some distance outside the village and later choked him to death before escaping.

Hyderabad DIG Tariq Razzak Dharejo has taken notice of the incident while SSP Tando Muhammad Khan district Syed Saleem Shah has formed a police investigation team to probe the incident and to arrest the suspects. Shah also met Sultan Khaskheli, father of the slain boy, and assured him that the culprits will be brought to the book.

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Sultan told the local media that his family and the slain son has no known enemies. "My son was a tiktoker and he never used to go outside the village."

The body was shifted to the district headquarter hospital where the medico legal doctors conducted postmortem and collected DNA and semen samples as well for the lab test.

The police are yet to register the incident's FIR.

In September this year another Tiktoker Zubair Shah, a minor boy, was allegedly raped in Dadu district. The police arrested the alleged rapists who had also circulated his objectionable video on social media.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 19^th, 2023.