Pakistan hangs child killer who confessed to spate of attacks including five murders
Imran Ali’s shocking crimes led thousands of outraged Pakistanis to swarm police stations and set fire to politicians’ homes
Pakistani authorities Wednesday executed a man convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, in an incident that shocked the country and sparked riots earlier this year.
Chilling CCTV footage broadcast on television following the killing purportedly showed the young girl – Zainab Fatima Ameen – walking hand in hand with an unidentified man, in what may have been her last moments.
Imran Ali, 24, was handed four separate death sentences for the rape and murder, which took place in the eastern city of Kasur in January.
In all he confessed to eight attacks on children in the city, including five murders, in a spate of violence that terrorised society.
“He was hanged this morning in the presence of a prison official and the father of the victim,” said an official at Lahore’s central prison, where the convict was executed.
“His dead body was handed over to his family who took it away for burial,” he said.