Karachi police have apprehended a suspect who “confessed” to killing a three-year-old child after attempting to rape her, a police statement issued on Thursday said.
The child’s body was recovered from a street in Karachi’s Qabail Colony of Gulberg Block 11 on Wednesday morning, the police said.
Central Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqi earlier told Dawn that the elder siblings of the child left their home to study at a seminary in the area when she followed them.