Murder?: Boy missing for 3 days found dead

FAISALABAD: The body of a seven-year-old boy missing for three days ago was found floating in a canal in Madina Town precincts on Sunday. Family of Subhan Ali, son of Faqeer Husain, a resident of Chak 208-RB, had filed a kidnapping case against unidentified men after he had gone missing. They suspected that the child was abducted on his way home from his father’s shop. On Sunday, some passersby spotted a body in Rakh Branch canal and called police who later fished it out. The body was later identified by the family of the child.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 9^th, 2012.