Pakistan: Girl Gang-Raped, Killed and Hanged from a Tree

Daily Mail
June 24, 2014

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A policeman stands near the body of Muzammil Bibi after policemen lowered her to the ground. She was found hanging from a tree in the town of Nawan Kot, located in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Pakistan in a case that bears a chilling resemblance to a double rape and murder that caused outrage in neighbouring India last month.

Pakistani police said Muzammil Bibi was attacked by three men in a field in the impoverished Layyah area of densely populated Punjab province.

Senior officer Sadaqat Ali Chohan said: ‘This is the first time in my 22 years of service in the police that I have seen such a case, where a girl was raped in this way and found hanging from a tree.

‘We have heard of such cases in India but never in Pakistan. The girl’s clothes were torn. We took her down and moved her to hospital.

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In May, two teenage cousins were also found hanging from a tree, after being raped in the north of India.

‘Her body had signs of resistance. We have arrested three individuals who have confessed to the crime.’

According to police, the 20-year-old resisted the rape and her attackers strangled her.

Police said her parents spent all night looking for her and found her body hanging the next morning.

In a shockingly similar crime which took place in May, two teenage cousins were found hanging from a tree after being raped in the north of India.

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