Police record 5-year-old rape victim's statement, arrest 2 men

Pakistani police today said they had arrested two men on the basis of a statement made by the five-year-old girl who was brutally gang-raped here a week ago.
"Three men forcibly took me in their white car. They took me to a house and offered me ice-cream and fish crackers. After that I don't know what happened," the girl was quoted as saying by a police official.
In light of her statement, police said they had arrested the owner of a shop and his employee on suspicion that the men in the white car bought the ice-cream and fish crackers from them.

The police believe the girl's statement would help them trace the rapists.
The police have so far quizzed over 60 suspects but are yet to find any clues about the rapists.
Youngest among her nine siblings, the girl, who belongs to a Pashto-speaking family, was playing outside her home at Ghausia Colony, Mughalpura -- a thickly populated impoverished locality of Lahore -- on last Thursday when she went missing.
She was found lying unconscious with blood stains on her clothes on Friday morning and was taken to hospital.
The incident caused outrage across Pakistan and rights groups have demanded that the rapists should be arrested and given exemplary punishment.