BANNU: A four-year-old girl was raped and later killed in the Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to the police, the incident took place at Jaman Road in Bannu city. The suspect has been taken into custody and is currently being interrogated.
Initial investigation shows that the suspect was a maternal uncle of the child. Meanwhile, the body of the deceased child has been shifted to a hospital, the police said.
Sahil — an NGO working against child sexual abuse in Pakistan — in its report “Cruel Numbers 2022” revealed that from January to June this year, 2,211 children were subjected to different forms of sexual and other kinds of abuses.
Data reveals that 1,207 girls and 1,004 boys were victims of exploitation, while this data brings the number of abused children to more than 12 per day.
This year reported cases under major categories include 803 cases of abduction, 243 rape cases, 298 incidents of sodomy, 41 cases of gang rape, and 87 episodes of gang sodomy.
