A six-year-old girl child was raped and then murdered in Punjab’s Chiniot, Samaa News reported

According to the victim’s family, the child was abducted on her way to her grandmother’s house. “After looking for her for almost 12 hours, we found her body from the nearby fields,” her father told the police.

The post-mortem report of the child has confirmed the rape.

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An FIR has been filed against unidentified men under sections of rape and murder.

The police have arrested a number of suspects and have sent their DNA samples to the laboratory. “We have begun questioning people in the neighbourhood as well,” the investigation officer said.

Earlier, a girl in Gujrat died after three men allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped her.

Three men abducted a girl from Chak Ghazi in Gujrat district on September 1. The accused gave a tranquilliser to the girl and then raped her, leaving the victim in a critical condition.