Baby strangled to death after rape in Pakistan

Islamabad: A one-and-half years old baby girl was raped and strangulated to death in Pakistan's Karachi, a media report said.

The body was found in a street near her home in Nazimabad area. According to the autopsy released Tuesday, the baby was subjected to sodomy, Dawn online reported.

Police said they have launched a hunt for the perpetrator.

Last year in November, a six-year-old girl was strangled and dumped near a garbage heap in Quetta after being subjected to rape attempts, the media report said.

Another incident of a five-year-old girl in Lahore who was repeatedly raped for more than a hour outside a hospital in September 2014 was widely condemned, the report added.