The assaults started late final month when a person on a motorbike started sporadically wounding ladies strolling on streets within the japanese a part of the Sprawling metropolis.
They escalated late Wednesday when the attacker focused 5 ladies in several elements of the neighborhood, bringing the entire variety of ladies assaulted to 11 and alarming authorities.
CCTV footage of 1 assault exhibits the person stabbing a burqa-clad girl from behind after which fleeing, police stated.
“It’s the sample that he assaults the ladies from the rear with some sharp pointed object. We have now arrested at the least eight people having similarities with the looks of the attacker,” Samiullah Soomro, a senior police officer, advised AFP.
Police additionally introduced a reward of 500,000 rupees for data resulting in the attacker’s arrest.
“Our full focus in on this case and we hope to seek out the offender quickly, Soomro stated.
The assaults echo an identical spree within the garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi final 12 months, when a person stabbed 17 ladies over a collection of months, killing one, as a result of he wished “revenge” for a merciless stepmother.
“I hate ladies,” 22-year-old Mohammad Ali advised police when he was lastly arrested in August.
