Missing children: Two minor siblings found dead in pond

SUKKUR: The bodies of two minor siblings, three-year-old Chrishty, and two-year-old Suleman aka Raja, were found floating in a pond of drainage water near Christian Colony in New Yard near Rohri on Thursday. On the eve of January 8, Christy and Raja were playing in their colony, when they went missing. Some of the residents of the Christian Colony informed the police about the bodies. The police rushed to the scene and fished out the bodies of the children of Irshad aka Shado Maseeh. The bodies were shifted to a taluka hospital in Rohri for post-mortem. The doctors said that the bodies were seven days old. Their viscera samples have been sent to a chemical laboratory in Larkana for examination.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 31^st, 2014.