**Two policemen in the Pakistani city of Karachi have been detained in connection with the alleged murder of a three-year-old girl, officials say.**The girl went missing from her home in a working-class neighbourhood on Friday. Her body was later recovered from a manhole elsewhere in the city.
The two men were taken into custody shortly after the girl went missing. Police say they deny killing her.
Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital, has an extremely high crime rate.
The two men were taken into custody in the Korangi neighbourhood in the south of Karachi, which is where the girl lived.
After she went missing on Friday, her family registered a missing person report at the local police station.
But her body was not discovered until Sunday when a relative of hers said that she had last seen the girl with one of the policemen, who lives in the same neighbourhood.
“We have been given the men’s custody till the 17th,” Pervez Umrani, Superintendent of Police for Korangi, told the BBC.
“We are having the DNA, finger prints and medical tests done on them. The girl’s autopsy has been done and DNA samples taken,” he said.
“Once we collect the evidence from the men, we will match it with the girl’s medical data.”
Police said that the two men confessed to having disposed of the girl’s body. An investigation is currently underway.