Two missing children found dead in Larkana

LARKANA: Two children, who went missing yesterday were found dead in the Larkana area of Sindh on Sunday.

According to police sources, the bodies of two minors aged two-years were recovered from a pond. The police initially said that the minors were drowned to death.

However, the heirs of the children alleged that the children were killed and later thrown into a pond. The bodies have been shifted to a nearby medical facility for medico-legal formalities. The police said that the actual cause of death will be known after the postmortem report.

Meanwhile, local residents launched protests demonstrations against the rising number of rape cases in the area and blocked roads. They demanded authorities to take action against the police for their criminal negligence.

Earlier, Child protection NGO Sahil has indicated in its latest report that the number of child sexual abuse cases reported in Pakistan every day gone up in the first half of 2020.

According to the report, more than six children on average were subjected to sexual abuse in the period in Pakistan. In its six-month “Cruel Number” report, Sahil reported that as of June this year, 497 children were sexually abused.

The report further said most of the cases were in Punjab — at 57%. Of the rest, 32% were reported in Sindh and 6% in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

More than 35 cases were reported in Islamabad, 22 in Balochistan, 10 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and one in Gilgit-Baltistan, the report disclosed. Out of the total reported cases, 62% were from rural areas and 38% reported from urban areas.