An eight-year-old Pakistani girl died in a hospital on Wednesday after she was gang-raped by two men in a village in Punjab province, sparking outrage among the locals who demanded public hanging of the rapists.
According to police, the girl, the daughter of a rickshaw driver, was playing outside her house on Monday at Buttar Dograan-Chawinda village in Sialkot district, some 130 kms from Lahore when two suspects gave her some intoxicant in juice and took her to a deserted place.
They gang-raped her and tortured her.
The suspects fled when some locals reached there after hearing the child's screams. The girl was shifted to a hospital in Sialkot in a critical condition where she died on Wednesday due to excessive bleeding, police said.
The family and local residents held a demonstration and blocked a road to protest against the incident and police apathy. They demanded that the culprits be arrested and hanged publicly.
They ended the protest after the district police chief Mustansar Feroze told them that the accused have been arrested.