Police in Pakistan search for a man suspected of shooting dead his seven-day-old baby girl because he wanted his first-born to be a boy
Police in Pakistan are hunting for a man suspected of shooting dead his seven-day-old baby girl because he wanted his first-born to be a boy.
"A baby girl was born ... he was infuriated,” Hidayatullah Khan, an uncle of the baby's mother, told Reuters news agencyThe baby named Jannat, which means heaven in Urdu, was shot multiple times on Monday, police in the central city of Mianwali and a relative of the baby said. "We are trying to arrest the accused who is still at large," police officer Hayatullah Khan said.
Over the last two years, a majority of the more than 500 bodies of infants found dumped in the southern city of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, were girls, according to Faisal Edhi, head of the largest social welfare charity group in the city.
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