A 5-year-old girl was gang raped in Pakistan, triggering rage across the country.

Islamabad, Sept 14/Nationalturk- In a gruesome incident, a 5-year-old girl was gang raped in Pakistan, triggering rage across the country.

Police said the girl was playing with her three-year-old cousin outside her Ghosia Colony, Mughalpura, residence in Lahore city of Pakistan’s Punjab province on Thursday evening when she went missing. “After raping the girl, the kidnappers threw her on the green belt outside the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.”

“She was sexually abused by the kidnappers persons and later abandoned outside the hospital. A watchman found the girl in unconscious condition with blood stains on her clothes and moved her to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,” police said.

The doctors in Sir Ganga Ram hospital examined her and confirmed that she has been raped repeatedly for more than an hour.

Her condition suggested that her tormentors were more than one,” they said.

The doctors have referred the girl for surgical intervention due to some medical conditions of a serious nature she had developed during the forced rape.

A doctor attending on the girl in the hospital said the victim was facing a serious medical complication called ‘vaginal haemorrhage’.

“The girl was unable to pass stool and urine and we suspect that she might have been raped from both sides,” he said adding it would be premature to give any final decision as the patient was undergoing treatment.

Victim stable but battling mental, physical agony: Doctors

“The girl is stable but battling mental and physical agony. The doctors would carry out two more operations after two weeks keeping in view condition of the patient,” the doctors said today.

They said that there was no need to send the girl abroad for medical treatment as the hospital had all the medical facilities to cure the rape victim.

Meanwhile, police have registered a case and launched a massive manhunt to track down the attackers. However, no arrests have taken place yet. “Police was using all resources to apprehend the culprits,” a senior police officer said.

He said police is trying to identify the criminals in the case via CCTV video from the Ganga Ram Hospital.

The incident has triggered outrage in the country with people from cross section of society condemning the incident and demanding stern and exemplary punishment to the guilty persons.

Chief Justice takes suo moto cognizance

Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken suo motu notice of the rape of a five-year-old girl in Lahore. He has sought a report from IGP Punjab over the matter.

The police official today presented a two page report to the Supreme Court giving details about the incident.

According to the report, the medical examination proved that five-year-old girl was sexually abused by kidnappers. It was also stated in the report that two teams have been formed by police to arrest the culprits.

Guilty won’t be spared: Minister

Pakistan’s Information Minister Pervez Rasheed while condemning the rape of the minor girl said Pakistan government won’t spare the guilty.

“The child, who was subjected to rape, was like my daughter. She is nation’s daughter and we won’t let her culprits go scot free. They will be arrested and punished,” he said.

The Law Minister of Punjab province Rana Sanaullah said that those who raped the minor girl will be found and punished.

“Those who have done this are not humans but beasts. They will be arrested and prosecuted under the law and given exemplary punishments,” he said.

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Faiz Ahmad / NationalTurk Pakistan News

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