LAHORE: Lahore police claimed on Tuesday to have traced out the location of the four girls who went missing in Lahore’s Hanjarwal area four days back ago.
According to the police, the location has been indicated somewhere in Johar Town by one of the missing girls mobile phone, “We will soon trace out the girls,” a police official said.
The four missing girls named Anum, 10, Kinza 11, Ayesha, 8, and Samreen, 14, went out to take a ride on the Metro Train and never got back home. The police said.
The girls got off the train near the Gulshan-e-Ravi area and hired a rickshaw that dropped them near the EME society, the police official said, adding their neighbour, named Omar, was in touch with them.
The police said to have taken the neighbour and rickshaw driver Arsalan into their custody for investigation.
The father of two of the missing girls identified as Irfan registered an FIR under Section 363 (punishment for kidnapping) of the Pakistan Penal Code on August 2 in Hanjarwal police station, stating that his daughters, 10-year-old Anum and 11-year-old Kinza, went out with two other girls from their neighbourhood to take a ride on the Orange Line Metro Train and have been missing since.
He feared that they have been kidnapped by some unidentified persons.