Police say an eight-year-old girl illegally employed as a maid has been killed by her employers in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for letting their pet parrots escape.
On Sunday, the child, named Zohra, opened a parrot cage to feed the birds but they flew away, according toAs punishment, Zohra's employers, who run a business buying and selling animals, beat her unconscious before abandoning her at a local hospital, where she died on Monday.An initial police
Police have been allowed to detain the suspects on remand for three days while they investigate and gather evidence about the allegations in the FIR.The suspects will not be formally charged until the investigation has been completed. Pakistan has a huge problem with child labour, according to a 2018 report by the Human Rights Commision of Pakistan , which estimated that some 12 million children were working in the country.
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