Karachi:
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi, the second such incident in the country in less than two weeks.
The girl was kidnapped from her school in Azizabad on September 24 and her body was found by the police near the Beach View Club in the city.
"The girl was raped and then murdered but there are bruises all over her body. We are still not sure if more than one person raped her," an official at Jinnah hospital said.
SSP central, Aamir Farooqi said the police were investigating the case but had not got any solid leads.
"What is confirmed is that a woman wearing a Niqab known to the victim picked her up from her school during classes on the pretext that her mother was very ill and had called the girl back home," he said.
The girl's parents lodged an FIR with the police in connection with her kidnapping on the same day she went missing. Her parents told a television channel they had also received threats.
Police said the girl's class teacher, relatives and the school's principal are being questioned and the gatekeeper of the school had been taken into custody.
In a similar incident, a five-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped in the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province and dumped outside a hospital on September 12.