Pakistani police have arrested two teenagers, including a close relative, for their involvement in the alleged rape and murder of a four-year-old girl in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, triggering massive protests. The minor Mardan girl was found dead in a sugarcane field in January. The prime suspect, 15-year-old Muhammad Nabi, worked in a local restaurant and was also a close relative of the deceased. Addressing a press conference, Mehsud said during interrogation that the suspects confessed to trying to sexually molest the girl in the sugarcane field prior to strangling her to death. The teenager took the child to a sugarcane field nearby her house on January 13.

Source: Indian Express February 07, 2018 10:52 UTC