Family finds deranged girl's body 'defiled'.

GUJRAT -- Unidentified suspects desecrated the body of a mentally challenged girl by exhuming it a day after she was buried in a graveyard of Chak Kamala village.

Reports said an 18-year old girl who was mentally and physically ill had died on Wednesday and was laid to rest in a local graveyard. Her family members visited the graveyard on Thursday and found the body lying nearby.

Police have registered a case against unidentified suspects under section 297 of Pakistan Penal Code on the report of Abdul Khaliq, a maternal uncle of the deceased, and started investigation.

A spokesman for the Gujrat police said a team of forensic experts collected evidence from the crime scene whereas DPO Umar Salamat had directed the SP investigation to monitor the case.

ROAD ACCIDENTS: As many as 400 road accidents involving motorbikes have been reported at the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital during three days of Eid.

Two youngsters were received dead in the hospital after they fell a victim to accidents, sources in ABSTH told Dawn here on Thursday.

Dr Abid Ghauri...

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