Rickshaw driver raped flood affected girl in devastating floods on the excuse of ‘ration’ in Sindh’s Sanghar district, News reported.
In a declaration recorded with the police, the victim said that the rickshaw driver offered her providing ration from the relief camp and took her to his home where he allegedly raped the victim girl for two days.
Talking to News, DIG Nawabshah Irfan Baloch, said that police have arrested the suspect and additional investigation into the matter was underway.
He said that the suspect was a rickshaw driver and arrested on identification of the victim girl. “Police conducting a medical examination of a victim and legal action taken against the suspect,” DIG told.
The rains that began in June have released powerful floods across the country that have washed away strips of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are in urgent need of shelter, food and clean water, with the threat of more flooding drumming parts of country in coming days, especially Sindh.
Sindh badly affected by the disastrous floods as over 400 died in the province since June this year.