Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan
MIRPURKHAS: Two sisters of a scheduled caste community were allegedly subjected to gang-rape by three armed men in Faqeer Ilyas Mangrio village near Aatana Mori in Sindhri taluka on Thursday.
An FIR lodged by the girls` brother said that his sisters, aged 16 and 21 years, had gone to nearby field in the wee hours to answer call of nature when the three men gang-raped them at gunpoint.
The victims told reporters at Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas where were sent for medical check-up that Ali Akbar Shar, Talib Shar and Ahmed Machhi subjected them to gang-rape and torture when they resisted.
Dr Rahila Khaskheli said that preliminary examination showed evidence the sisters had been tortured and raped.
Phuladiyoon police have registered a case against the three accused but made no arrests till late Friday evening.
Source: Dawn
