14-year-old girl strangled to death after rape in Lahore

LAHORE: A 14-year-old girl was strangled to death after being raped in the Manawan area of Lahore, sources said on Saturday.

Sources further said the family of the deceased tried to bury the body of the girl without bringing the incident into the notice of the police.

However, receiving information about the incident police arrived at the scene and shifted the body to the hospital for medico-legal formalities.

According to a police official, the girl was strangled to death and torture marks were visible on her neck. Further facts would be revealed after the postmortem report and investigation,” the police official added.

Earlier, a girl was allegedly gang-raped by three men including her ‘friend’ with whom she came into contact through the popular TikTok video-sharing app in Lahore.

In an FIR, the girl had stated that she befriended a boy, Shiraz, through TikTok app 20 days ago and later she reached Samanabad area over being called by him.

She added that Shiraz asked her to sit in his car where two men were also sitting there. The girl claimed that she was gang-raped by all three men at gunpoint inside the vehicle.