PESHAWAR: A medical report has confirmed the gang rape of two women in Peshawar’s suburb. The perpetrators of the ghastly rape incident have already been killed in a shootout with police.
On September 6, husband of the two women visited Rehman Baba police station and filed a report against four persons for allegedly gang raping his two wives on gunpoint.
On September 10, SSP Operations Farhan Khan told reporters that the four accused were arrested.
Mr Khan said that four accused persons had barged into a house at around 2am, tied the house owner, a daily wager, along with his 11-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son, with a rope inside a room, and gang-raped his two wives, one 22-year-old and another 27-year-old.
On September 12, the accused persons were killed after their accomplices opened fire at a police party carrying the accused persons for identification purposes during ongoing investigation into the rape allegations.
‘Four persons, allegedly involved in a gang rape within the jurisdiction of Rehman Baba police station, died after their accomplices opened fire,’ capital city police officer Dr Mian Saeed Ahmad told Dawn.
On Sunday, the medical report proved that the women had been gang raped.
‘Medical reports of the victim women received by police confirmed severe sexual assault on both the victims. According to the reports, severe physical violence was also inflicted on the victims during the rape, senior police officials told Dawn. Bureau