by Zara Mustapha

A 20-year-old woman was gang raped,killed and hanged on a tree in Pakistan, bearing a chilling resemblance to a double rape and murder that caused outrage in neighbouring India last month.

The victim, Muzammil Bibi, was said to be  attacked by three men in a field in the impoverished Layyah area of densely populated Punjab province in Pakistan.

According to the Pakistani police, the senior officer Sadaqat Ali Chohan said: ‘This is the first time in my 22 years of service in the police that I have seen such a case, where a girl was raped in this way and found hanging from a tree.

Daily Mail reports:

‘We have heard of such cases in India but never in Pakistan. The girl’s clothes were torn. We took her down and moved her to hospital.

‘Her body had signs of resistance. We have arrested three individuals who have confessed to the crime.’

According to police, the 20-year-old resisted the rape and her attackers strangled her.

Police said her parents spent all night looking for her and found her body hanging the next morning.

In a shockingly similar crime which took place in May, two teenage cousins were found hanging from a tree after being raped in the north of India.