PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – Two people were killed and another abducted and gangraped in Yar Hussain area of Swabi district in a pre-dawn attack on a group of transgender persons on Monday.
Reports said the attack took place when the group was returning home after performing at a wedding party.
Some armed men were hiding in a nearby field and tried to abduct them all but when the transgenders showed resistance they attacked them with weapons, a senior police official said.
Besides leaving two transgenders wounded, the attackers took one of them captive and gangraped him, added, Sajjad Khan, district police chief of Swabi in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, he was released hours later however.
One transgender and one drummer died on the spot while another was wounded,” Khan said.
The armed men then abducted one transgender who was released, Khan said.
Police later raided separate locations and arrested six suspects, charging them with murder and gang-rape.
A second police official told a foreign news agency that the six detainees often attended the shows by the transgender group.
