Class 4 student murdered after assault in Gujranwala

GUJRANWALA: A student of class four was sexually abused and murdered by a taxi driver at Nowshera Virkan.

Reportedly, nine-year-old Tahir Naseer went missing on Friday. During investigation, police told that a citizen saw a taxi driver carrying the child to an unknown place. Acting on the information, police raided and arrested taxi driver Ashfaq. During preliminary investigation, the accused confessed to his crime and dumping the body in a nullah. Police have shifted the accused to an unknown place. Meanwhile, scores of citizens staged a demonstration and blocked traffic by burning tyres on a road. On Sunday night, funeral prayer of the victim was offered which was attended by the officers of district administration and parliamentarians.

Two human traffickers arrested: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) launched a crackdown against human traffickers and arrested two of them and three passengers here on Sunday. FIA Deputy Director Mufakhir Adeel told that FIA team raided the Sialkot airport and arrested three passengers who were flying abroad through illegal documents.

The accused Saeedur Rehman, Shabbir Hussain and Nasrullah told that they had paid money to agents for going to Italy through the route of Dubai and Libya. Meanwhile, the FIA teams have arrested two human traffickers M Owais and Riasat Ali from Sialkot and Gujrat.

52 POS HELD: District police claimed to have arrested 52 proclaimed offenders (PO), including three women accused during the last three days. According to a press release issued here on Sunday, police raided different localities and arrested 52 POs, including Yasmin, Irshad Begum, Sadaf, Nasir, Adil, Jehangir, Shahid, Usman and others.

All the accused were involved in heinous crimes and wanted to different police stations of the district.