Youth gets death for raping, killing child in Sirajganj

UNB, Sirajganj

A youth was sentenced to death on Tuesday for the rape and murder of a child in 2014.

Sirajganj’s Women and Child Repression Tribunal also fined convict Nur Islam, 30, Tk 1 lakh. He was also jailed for life for abducting the victim and fined Tk 50,000. He will have to spend another year in jail if he fails to pay the fine.

Nur, the son of Abdul Khaleq of Shibnathpur village of the sadar upazila, called his neighbour’s daughter Ritu, 8, daughter of neighbour Nazrul Islam, at his residence to enjoy TV. Later, he took her to a nearby cropland where he raped her before killing her. The victim’s blood-stained body was recovered the next day. Her mother Kohinoor Begum filed a case with Sirajganj Sadar Police Station.

Train services resume on Bhairab-Mymensingh route

UNB, Kishoreganj

Rail communication between Bhairab and Mymensingh was restored after seven hours yesterday.

The derailment of a freight train wagon in Kishoreganj’s Gochihata on Tuesday snapped the communication.

Abdur Rahman Biswas, officer-in-charge of Kishoreganj Railway Police, said the accident took place around 7pm. A relief train from Mymensingh conducted the salvage operation. Train communication between Bhairab and Mymensingh resumed around 2am.

Sundarbans tigress wasn’t killed by poachers: Investigators

UNB, Bagerhat

A tigress, found dead in Sundarbans East Zone on August 20, was not killed by poachers, investigators have confirmed.

But the probe body, formed by the Forest Department, is yet to specify the cause of death. The three-member committee submitted its report to the Divisional Forest Officer on Monday night, said probe body chief Md Joynal Abedin. Samples collected from the carcass of the tiger are being tested at the Forest Department’s forensic laboratory and Criminal Investigation Department laboratory to determine the actual cause of the animal’s death, said Kanak Roy, the Senior Lab Technician of Wildlife Crime Control Unit.

Lab reports will clarify the cause of death. “They’ll be released in the first week of September,” he said.

On August 20, Forest Department workers recovered the carcass of a tigress from Chhaprakhali area under Sharankhola range of the Sundarbans East Zone.

The Forest Department said they had counted 114 tigers on the Bangladesh part of Sundarbans through camera trapping. Twenty-one tigers have died between 2001 and August 20, according to official data.

Girl ‘raped’ in Gaibandha

UNB, Gaibandha

A schoolgirl was reportedly raped in Paroil village in Gobindaganj upazila on Sunday.

The victim’s father filed a case over the incident with Gobindaganj police.

According to case documents, the seventh grader was alone at home when Liton Mia, son of Abdur Razzak, a neighbour of the victim, approached her. He threatened the girl and raped her. “Liton has been on the run since the incident,” Gobindaganj Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge Mehedi Hasan said. “We’re trying to arrest him.”

The victim was scheduled to undergo medical tests at the Sadar Hospital on Tuesday, the OC said.

Flood-hit 1,800 students get education materials

BSS, Nilphamari

A total of 1,800 flood hit students in Dimla upazila of the district got education materials from UNICEF yesterday.

A function was held at the Upazila Parishad auditorium this noon on the occasion with Upazila Nirbahi Officer Nazmun Nahar in the chair.

It was addressed, among others, by UNICEF executive Nazibullah Hamim, Upazila Parishad Chairman Tobibul Islam, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Primary Education Md Abdul Wahab, District Primary Education Officer Osman Goni and Communication Officer of UNICEF Monzur Ahmed.