KHAIRPUR: A 10-year-old was raped and killed in Khairpur district, Bol News reported on Saturday.

The victim, a Hindu boy, had gone missing from the Babarlu Bypass area since Friday evening. Relatives of the child started searching for him, but to no avail. In the night, they found the boy’s tortured body from a vacant plot in the area.

According to initial report of the police, the boy was sexually abused before he was murdered. The police said the boy was strangulated using a rope.

This incident of rape and murder has caused grief and anger in the minority community.

Meanwhile, police have arrested three suspects involved in sexually abusing children in Kharian. The suspects have been identified as Gibran, Makhdoom and Mustafa. The incidents of rape took place within limits of Kakrali and Saraye Alamgir police stations. Cases have been registered against them in both the police stations.

On November 19, a man had killed his maternal uncle and aunty over refusing his marriage proposal for their daughter in Sargodha.

Because of the dispute over domestic issues with his family, the victim Riaz had refused marriage proposal of his nephew Adeel.