Christian girl raped, murdered in Pakistan

August 28, 2012

Muqadas Kainat, a Christian girl who lived near Sahiwal in the eastern Pakistani province of Punjab, was raped by at least five men and brutally murdered on August 14. No arrests have been made in the case.

The youngest of seven children, Kainat was the daughter of a brickmaker who was at his wife’s hospital bedside at the time of the incident. Reports differ over whether Kainat was 12 or 15.

 

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Further information:

• Christian Teenager raped and murdered in Punjab (Fides)
• 12 years old Christian girl murdered after gang rape by 5 Muslims in Pakistan (Pakistan Christian Post)
• Pakistani Christian children under attack; rape, murder, kidnapping are common (CWN, 8/27)