Teen raped, killed by brother in Pak’s Quetta

ISLAMABAD: A 13-year-old girl was killed after being raped by her brother in Killi Ismail area of

Quetta

, the capital of Pakistan’s restive southwestern

Balochistan province

, police said on Monday.

According to details, the victim, a class VI student, was found dead in her house under mysterious circumstances on Sunday.

Her brother and the alleged culprit, had claimed a day earlier that he had left the house for about 30 minutes and when he came back, he found his sister strangled with her scarf. “When I came back to home, I found my sister dead inside a room of our house. She was alone at the time of the incident as my mother and another sister have gone to Punjab,” the accused had said.

Abdul Razzaq Cheema, Quetta’s Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), said that her brother on Monday confessed to murdering his sister after attempting to rape her. Dr Noor Baloch, a police surgeon, however, confirmed that she was raped before being murdered.

Cheema said that the DNA samples of the accused were sent to a forensic lab in Lahore for verification.

Following the rape and murder of seven-year-old in Kasur district of Pakistan’s central Punjab earlier this month, there has been a marked upsurge in the reporting of sexual abuse cases across the country.