HARIPUR: The body of an eight-year-old girl stuffed in a sack was found near Jabba-Sirikot bypass here on Saturday morning.

According to police, the unidentified slain girl was wearing blue shirt, white trouser (shalwar) and white scarf (dupatta). She also bore some visible marks of rope around her neck. 

Talking to Dawn by telephone, Abdus Sattar, Station House Officer of Ghazi police station, said he was informed by the people that a sack containing something was lying near the Jabba-Sirikot bypass.

“I drove straight to the place and got opened the sack, which contained the body of a girl wearing school uniform.”

It seems that some miscreants had kidnapped and killed her somewhere else and dumped her body here to conceal their crime, he said, adding that so far no one had come to collect the body.

To a question, the police official said it was too early to establish that the innocent girl was molested before her murder because the hospital had yet not sent them a medical report in this respect.

SHO Sattar said if nobody came to collect the corpse, they would bury her by Saturday evening. He said, “We brought the body to the hospital at 8am and informed various TV channels to telecast the news. But, so far no one has approached us for the body,” he informed.

The police have, however, registered a murder case under section 302 against the unidentified killers. — Correspondent