VEHARI: TheBurewala Sadar police arrested the rapist-cum-killer of a sixyear-old girl within a day of the incident in Chak 265/ EB on Monday.
The suspect kidnapped the minor girl on Saturday when she was outside to buy a notebook. He raped her in a house and later killed her.
He dumped the body in a nearby pond and fled.
The police recovered thebody on Sunday and on Monday and traced the suspect, who is the 17-year-old cousin of the deceased.
Station House Officer Haq Nawaz told Dawn the suspect had confessed to his crime. He said the medical report confirmed that she was strangled to death after rape. The police handed over the body to the family after the autopsy. Correspondent
