Minor girl: Body of seven-year-old found

SUKKUR: The body of a minor girl was found from a middle school in the Shaban Lashari village situated within the limits of the Dad Leghari police station near Mirpur Mathelo on Sunday morning. According to sources, on Saturday evening seven-year-old Amna, daughter of Noor Hassan Lashari, a resident of the Shaban Lashari village, was playing near her house when it started to rain. The child went missing soon after. The family thought she might have gone to a relative’s house but when she did not return by night time, the family started looking for her. The girl’s father informed the police a few hours later. On Sunday, the body was found by the police in a middle school. The body was taken to the hospital for a postmortem. The police said that the girl’s gold earrings were missing and her throat had been slit with a sharp knife. Two suspects were taken into custody by the police.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2015.