Missing 8-year-old boy found dead in Pakpattan

PAKPATTAN: An eight-year-old boy was found dead underneath a flyover in a Pakpattan neighbourhood on Monday morning, ARY News reported.

According to police sources, the boy had gone missing while playing outside his residence last week. The body was found within the limits of Kalyana police station.

The body was moved to a hospital for autopsy.

The police said they have registered an FIR of the incident on the complaint of the deceased’s father and launched a probe into it.

Last week, a five-year-old boy was found dead from an uncovered gutter in Iqbal Town in Lahore two months after he went missing. Rescue officials said that some passersby spotted the body stuck inside an open manhole and alerted the rescue workers. Rescue workers pulled out the body and shifted it to hospital.

The boy was identified as Azaan, son of Nadeem, a resident of Badar Block. The police had registered a kidnapping case against unidentified men on the complaint of the victim’s father two months back.