FAISALABAD: Three siblings were seriously burnt after a man threw acid on them and fled in the Karkhana Bazar area.
The three victims who are siblings sustained burn wounds and were shifted to Allied Hospital for medical attention. The man who poured acid over them managed to flee the scene. The siblings were identified as 17-year-old Amina, 14-year-old Khadija, and 12-year-old Yousuf.
Earlier this week, a transgender suffered severe burns after an accused threw acid on him at Tibbi Mochi village of Sinawan in tahsil Kot Addu. A man namely Muzammil who happened to be a friend of transgender Sarfraz alias Chandni was involved in the attack, police said adding that he had been arrested after he had escaped from the crime scene.
The injured was rushed to THQ hospital Kot Addu, however, doctors advised him to be shifted to the Burn Unit of Nishtar Hospital Multan. He had suffered burns in his face with damage to the eyes and hand.
Several people, mainly women, and girls are disfigured in acid attacks every year in the Muslim majority country of 208 million people, although it is estimated many cases go unreported. Acid attacks in the country hit an all-time high in 2014, with 153 reported cases.
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Perpetrators are usually husbands and family members, and in a 2018 Reuters survey, Pakistan ranked fifth for the highest rates of non-sexual violence in the world, including domestic abuse, with acid attacks often used as a means of punishing alleged transgressions.
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