Police have confirmed one was raped before he died. Post-mortem reports on the other two boys are awaited. Kasur in Punjab province has seen a string of child abductions, rapes and murders in recent years.
In 2018 the killing of a six-year-old girl prompted widespread outrage, and protests complaining of police incompetence in which two people died. The man executed for raping and murdering the girl, whose name was Zainab, was convicted of similar crimes against six more girls.
