Girl killed after rape in Rangpur
Two more violated in two districts
UNB, Dhaka
A Class-VI girl has been killed in Rangpur reportedly after rape while two other minor girls have been violated in Madaripur and Bogura districts. In Rangpur, Suravi Akhter, 13, daughter of Hiron Miah in Pirganj upazila and a student of Chandipur High School, has been murdered after rape. Locals said Suravi had been living at her maternal grandfathers house at Chandipur village in the upazila as her parents have been working in a garment factory in Dhaka.
She went out of the house on Friday evening for private tuition but never returned. Locals spotted her body with a scarf wrapped around her neck in a jungle around 9am yesterday and informed police. Police recovered the body and sent it to Rangpur Medical College Hospital morgue for post mortem, said officer-in-charge of Pirganj Police Station Masumur Rahman Masum.
He said the girl might have been raped first and then murdered.
In Bogura, police yesterday arrested an office assistant of a local madrasa for allegedly raping a sixth grader at Thaltamaj village of Nandigram upazila. The accused was identified as Harunur Rashid Bablu Gayen, 45, office assistant of SM Fazil Madrasa and son of Akbar Ali Gayen of Thaltamaj village.
In Madaripur, law enforcers arrested a youth on Friday evening for allegedly raping a one-year-old girl at Chouarbari village in Rajoir upazila. The arrested was identified as Hridoy Bhakta, 21, son of Sushen Bhakta of the village.
