Girl becomes pregnant at eight

Multan - An eight-year Pakistani girl has become pregnant and doctors fear she could die at the time of delivering the baby, …

Multan - An eight-year Pakistani girl has become pregnant and doctors fear she could die at the time of delivering the baby, her mother claimed yesterday.

The mother charged that two young neighbours in her village had sexual intercourse with her daughter, who attained puberty prematurely at the age of five.

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