TOBA TEK SINGH: Rescue 1122 divers and Jhang police officials worked for three days in vain to recover the body of a girl from the Korraywali Kachi canal near Jhang.
During the investigation, Babar Ali Sial, who reportedly murdered his minor daughter for honour, told authorities that he had dumped the body into a canal. He changed his story on Tuesday and directed the police to the correct spot.
Sania, his 12-year-old daughter, was strangled and her body was dumped in an abandoned water well in his village of Kot Khaira. Later, he used a tractor to fill the well with earth.
Police excavated the well, retrieved the body and shifted it to the Jhang DHQ Hospital for an autopsy.
Sania was hidden in the house of her aunt in Jhang, fearing for her life, but her father and five relatives succeeded in kidnapping her on Dec 27.
Source: Dawn