PESHAWAR – The body of a teenage girl with her throat slit open was found within the jurisdiction of Banamarhi police station on Sunday.
A Banamarhi policeman told the deceased was 16 years of age and her throat had been slit with a sharp object. The killers dumped her remains in an open field in Kotla Mohsin Khan. Later in the evening, she was identified as 16-year-old, a resident of Charkha Khel.
The Banamarhi official said they suspect the girl had been raped but were waiting for official autopsy results. According to the deceased’s mother, they had gone to attend a wedding on Saturday night and her daughter had been home. When they returned, she said, her daughter was missing. She added initially they tried searching for her and told the police at the local checkpost who said they would look for her in the morning.
The mother said she does not know whether her daughter left the house or was taken. Police filed an FIR under Section 302 of PPC. “Whoever killed her did it so brutally, they slit her throat,” said the policeman. Earlier, on February 10, body of a minor was found in a field in Tangi.
