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Pakistan: Zainab Ansari's Confessed Killer Sentenced To Death

The world was moved by a viral photo of the 7-year-old girl, whose body was found on a trash heap in January.

Her murder triggered rioting in Pakistan and rippled the world-over, and on Saturday the man convicted in 7-year-old Zainab Ansari's death was sentenced to die four times over.

Mohammad Imran, a local man who knew Zainab's family, pleaded guilty to raping and killing the

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