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29 March 2024

Four-year old girl survives slaughter

Four-year-old Arwa of Pakistan. (SUPPLIED)

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Four-year-old Arwa of Pakistan was playing with her younger brother near their house in Saudi Arabia last year when a car stopped and its driver quietly approached them. He simply grabbed Arwa, bundled her in the car and left.

In the car, the unknown man pulled a knife and told the crying Arwa he would slash her neck and dump her near the cemetery. The man did not tell the little girl why he was doing this to her but he carried out his threat.

“Arwa was found by passers by near the Araq cemetery…...her neck was slashed and her body was full of wounds,” the Arabic language daily Ajel said in a report from the southern town of Khamis Mushait.

“They rushed her to hospital, where doctors worked for hours to save her…she was saved and all wounds were stitched….she left hospital two weeks later.”

The incident took place in Ramadan last year and an extensive manhunt launched by police has so far failed to lead to the arrest of the kidnapper.

Police said they had shown Arwa many suspected cars and drivers but she could not identify any of them. But they will not give up and the man hunt will continue until the kidnapper is seized, the paper said.

“It was a black day in my life,” said her father, Mohammed Nawaz. “My little son told me a car stopped and took Arwa away…I roamed around like a mad man, carrying and screaming, not knowing what to do…I then went to the police who later told me she was found by passers by near the cemetery…I don’t know why this man kidnapped her or what he had done to her…all that she said was that he screamed at her and told her he would slay her.”