Mob beats up two women mistaken as child traffickers

Staff Correspondent
A mob beat up two women mistaking them as child traffickers in the capital's Dania yesterday. While Firoza Begum, 50, and Rahima Begum, 32, were talking to a boy at noon, local people beat them up. On information, police rescued the women and admitted them to a local hospital. Firoza and Rahima claimed that they came to the place from Hasnabad and South Keraniganj area and asked the boy for identifying a house where Firoza's daughter works as a domestic help. Sub-Inspector Mobin Ahmed Bhuiyan of Kadamtoli Police Station said their primary investigation found that the women were not child traffickers.