<p>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.</p>.<p>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.</p>.<p>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.</p>.<p>The family and local residents held a demonstration and blocked a road to protest against the incident and police apathy.</p>.<p>They demanded that the culprits be arrested and hanged publicly.</p>.<p>They ended the protest after the district police chief Mustansar Feroze told them that the accused have been arrested.</p>.<p>The girl’s family also demanded to include the Anti-Terrorism Act section in the FIR against the suspects.</p>.<p>In 2018, a country-wide outrage was witnessed over the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Kasur, some 50 kms from Lahore.</p>.<p>For the first time in the country’s history, an anti-terrorism court handed down the death penalty to the suspect, Imran Ali, 23, after four-day proceedings.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, an anti-terrorism court in Lahore handed down the death penalty to a suspect on three counts in a rape and murder case of a minor boy in Chunian city, some 70 kms from here.</p>.<p>According to police, the convict had killed the boy after sexually assaulting him. </p>
<p>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.</p>.<p>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.</p>.<p>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.</p>.<p>The family and local residents held a demonstration and blocked a road to protest against the incident and police apathy.</p>.<p>They demanded that the culprits be arrested and hanged publicly.</p>.<p>They ended the protest after the district police chief Mustansar Feroze told them that the accused have been arrested.</p>.<p>The girl’s family also demanded to include the Anti-Terrorism Act section in the FIR against the suspects.</p>.<p>In 2018, a country-wide outrage was witnessed over the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Kasur, some 50 kms from Lahore.</p>.<p>For the first time in the country’s history, an anti-terrorism court handed down the death penalty to the suspect, Imran Ali, 23, after four-day proceedings.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, an anti-terrorism court in Lahore handed down the death penalty to a suspect on three counts in a rape and murder case of a minor boy in Chunian city, some 70 kms from here.</p>.<p>According to police, the convict had killed the boy after sexually assaulting him. </p>