DASKA: Five men charged with gang raping a woman nine years ago were hanged early on Wednesday morning at Sialkot jail, a prison official said. Sialkot jail superintendent Intizar Wali Khan identified the five men as: Mushtaq Ahmad alias Pappu, Shehzad Maseeh, Yusaf, Abdul Jabbar and Iftikhar Al. He said that the men had on August 19, 1997 entered the house of local trader Muhammad Boota Mughal and raped his wife, Sarraya Bibi, at gunpoint before making off with valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. Four of the attackers were residents of Daska city, while one, a Christian, was a Pasrur city resident. Relatives of the convicted men were allowed a final meeting with them at the jail on Tuesday. After the execution, the dead bodies were handed over to family members for burial. Prison officials said that this had been the first time that five people had been executed in one day at Sialkot.