AKIPRESS.COM - The body of eight-year-old Zainab was discovered in a rubbish dump on Tuesday, five days after she had gone missing. Post-mortem reports have revealed that she had been raped and strangled to death, Huffington Post reported.

Police in Kasur say that at least five of the 12 cases are linked to one suspect who is being hunted by officers and DNA samples have been taken from approximately 90 possible suspects.

Zainab’s murder has caused outrage all throughout Pakistan. Just hours before her funeral, on Wednesday police and protesters clashed as demonstrators tried to force their way into Kasur’s police station.

The protests have killed at least two people and several remain injured after paramilitary troops were called in to restore order.

Zainab went missing while she was on her way to a Quran recital. Her body was discovered just two kilometres away from her home.

Her parents were in Mecca for Umrah - an Islamic pilgrimage - when the eight-year-old was abducted and killed.

Shortly after arriving at Benazir Bhutto International airport, Zainab’s father alleged that police did not fully cooperate to finding his daughter, “If the police would have acted immediately, the culprit would have been caught,” he told reporters.