Seven-year-old boy found dead in Gujranwala

GUJRANWALA: The body of a seven-year-old boy was found from Gujranwala's Kamoke town early Saturday morning, according to the police.

The body was recovered from a hay stack in Chandrala village of the locality.

Authorities shared that the postmortem report of the minor shows that he was raped and then murdered. The child was strangulated to death, the authorities added.

The police said that the boy had been reported missing after leaving his house Friday afternoon.

Two domestic workers, employed at the victim's house, have been taken into custody and currently being investigated. 

Since the beginning of 2018, there has been a marked upsurge in the reporting of sexual abuse cases across Pakistan. The brutal rape and murder of Zainab Ansari in Kasur earlier this month, in particular, shocked the entire country, with #JusticeforZainab becoming the rallying cry in a nationwide drive to end violence against children.