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Pakistani police arrested the important thing suspect within the gang rape of a girl polio employee who was assaulted by three males throughout final week’s vaccination marketing campaign, officers stated Wednesday. Two different suspects are nonetheless at massive.
The assault on Thursday in Jacobabad, a district within the southern Sindh province, was one in a spate of assaults concentrating on polio vaccination groups going door to door within the marketing campaign throughout Pakistan.
The lady who was attacked had alerted the authorities, saying she was raped by three males after going right into a home in Jacobabad to manage polio drops to the youngsters there, native police official Mohammad Saifal stated.
The suspect, recognized as Ahmad Jakhrani, was arrested in a single day, Saifal added.
Police are nonetheless searching for the arrest of the 2 different males, accused of taking turns to assault the girl, Saifal stated. An area police chief was fired for negligence following the assault, for failing to offer the polio employee with satisfactory safety.
The assault shocked many Pakistanis as such sexual assaults are uncommon, although ladies polio employees have complained of harassment previously throughout the campaigns. The provincial authorities in Sindh has stated it will absolutely examine the case.
Police additionally detained the husband of the attacked lady for kicking her out of their dwelling and threatening to kill her after the assault over allegedly tarnishing the household’s honor by being raped.
So-called honor killings, by which ladies and ladies are slain by their very own family members for allegedly dishonoring the household’s popularity, are nonetheless frequent in Pakistan.
Saifal additionally stated police have been deployed to the home the place the girl was now staying along with her family members for her safety.
Anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan are frequently marred by violence. Militants typically goal polio vaccination groups and police assigned to guard them, falsely claiming that the campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize youngsters.
Since January, Pakistan has reported 17 new instances of polio, jeopardizing many years of efforts to eradicate the possibly deadly, paralyzing illness from the nation. Polio typically strikes youngsters below age 5 and sometimes spreads by means of contaminated water.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the one nations by which the unfold of polio has by no means been stopped. Pakistan’s authorities is planning one other polio vaccination drive in October.
