VEHARI: The police have arrested a teenage boy for murdering his two minor nieces after raping them. Vehari DPO Akhtar Farooq said that the incident took place in Basti Chamanabad of tehsil Mailsi in Vehari where accused Muhammad Azhar raped 7-year-old Sania and six-year-old Fauzia and strangled them to death to hide his crime. Both unfortunate girls left home for the local mosque on Thursday afternoon and when they did not return, their families informed the local police about the disappearance of the girls. Their postmortem report proved that the two girls were strangled to death after rape. The police over suspicion arrested Muhammad Azhar 17, a resident of the same area and also the paternal uncle of the killed girls who confessed the crime.

Source: Pakistan Today November 30, 2019 16:18 UTC