A minor girl was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed before being dumped in a deserted area of Karachi's Sachal Goth on Friday, police and hospital officials said.
The body of the seven-year-old girl was recovered from the bushes near Abdullah Shah Ghazi Goth in the outskirts of Karachi, the Dawn reported.
It was later shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for postmortem.
Senior House officer, Sohrab Goth, said that the girl had gone missing from her residence in Abdullah Shah Ghazi Goth on Thursday.
The family had lodged her missing report at Sachal police station at around 9:30pm on Thursday and her body was found on Friday morning from a ditch surrounded by bushes near Al Azhar Garden residential complex.
The officer said that the police have started conducting raids and hoped that the culprit(s) would be arrested soon.
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