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The bodies of a six-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother were recovered, along with their mother’s, from a drain near their home in Mauripur, Karachi.

The children were subjected to sexual assault before being killed, an investigation into the matter has revealed.

The bodies of the missing 25-year-old woman, her six-year-old daughter and two-year-old son were found in a drain close to their home in Sher Muhammad Village, Mauripur, on Saturday, June 29.

The father of the children, the complainant, told the police that his wife and two children went out of the home to meet Mehran Bibi for ‘religious and spiritual treatment’ on June 28 but disappeared for more than 24 hours and were found dead inside a drain.

Dawn’s Imtiaz Ali reported that Police Surgeon Summaiya Syed, after a post-mortem examination, ‘confirmed’ that both the minor girl and her brother were raped, adding that the girl was subjected to a ‘brutal’ sexual assault.

She also asserted that they had not ruled out the possibility of the mother being raped till the receipt of chemical reports, etc.

The police surgeon also ensured that it was not a natural death, but the exact cause of death had been reserved till receipt of reports.

However, DIG South Syed Asad Raza told Dawn that the case had been registered even though it appeared that the woman’s husband was not ‘interested’ in pursuing the murder case of his wife and children seriously.

He seemed ‘aware’ of something but was hiding it from the investigators. Thus, the police were interrogating him, his cousin and other relatives to get clues about the real culprits but so far, no one has been formally arrested.