Teenaged girl burnt alive inside car in Abbottabad

PESHAWAR: A 9th grade student, who according to locals was mentally unstable, was burnt alive in a van close to her house in Makol village near Donga Gali in Abbottabad district. 

The body of Ambreen, the daughter of a poor labourer, was recovered from a completely burnt van on Friday. The graphic picture of the completely gutted body of the young girl shocked everyone after it went viral on the social media.

A local resident, Abdullah, approached journalists to highlight the issue so that the family is provided justice. “She was apparently kidnapped, raped and burnt alive after tying her to the back seat with a wire,” said Abdullah.  He later identified the girl as Ambreen, a grade-9 student. He added that the girl belonged to a poor family and the police arrived after the issue was highlighted by the mainstream and social media.

Others said the family had stopped sending her to school due to her unstable mental condition. “Three teams have been constituted for the profiling of every male member in the village. A CCTV camera shows no vehicular movement from outside so it is believed the murderer is from within the village,” Regional Police Officer, Hazara Range, Mohammad Saeed Wazir told The News. Another official said that since the postmortem of the body couldn’t be performed, nor any swabs taken, it cannot be confirmed if she was sexually assaulted or otherwise.