Karachi: Teenage boy sexually assaulted, murdered in Bahadurabad area

Karachi: A teenage boy was allegedly raped and murdered in Karachi’s Bahadurabad on Thursday, police and hospital officials said on Thursday.

The unidentified and tortured body of the child was found near the Alamgir Hospital”. It was later moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate and Medical Centre for legal proceedings.

According to police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed, the boy, aged between 12 and 14 years, was dead on arrival at the hospital.

“His body showed marks of severe torture and autopsy findings are highly suggestive of anal rape,” she said, adding that initial investigations hinted at asphyxial death.

However, the cause of death had been reserved until the teenager’s toxicology and histopathology reports came out.

“DNA swabs and samples have been collected for identification/profiling and cross-matching.”

A woman traveling in a car arrived at the private hospital in Bahadurabad earlier today and told an ambulance driver about a body lying on the road.

She initially asked the ambulance driver to take the body and promised to follow him to the hospital but later disappeared.

The ambulance driver informed the police about the incident after which the body was taken into custody and shifted to JPMC.

There were severe torture marks were found across the teenager’s body apparently caused by blunt instruments.

Police are conducting raids to trace the womam who first identified the child's body.