LAHORE: A harrowing account has emerged of a Dolphin Force constable, oneof the first personnel who reached the crime site of the motorway gang-rapeincident.
A woman was on her way along with her children from Lahore to Gujranwalavia M-II when she was waylaid and gang-raped on the outskirts of theprovincial capital in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Describing what he saw as he along with other personnel reached the scene,Ali Abbas said they received a phone call on police helpline 15 at 2:49 am,after which they rushed to the spot where they saw a car with broken windowglass. There was no one inside the vehicle, he added.
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“I switched on a torch to look for the person who called the police andspotted a child’s shoe,” he recounted, adding they grew suspicious onfinding another shoe lying in the roadside fields and fired gunshots in theair but couldn’t see anything due to pitch-black night.
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After aerial firing, they walked towards bushes and heard the voice of awoman calling them for assistance, Abbas said. The woman and her childrenhad huddled up close to each other, he added.
