Schoolgirl killed after rape in Pirojpur
An eight-year-old schoolgirl was killed allegedly after rape in Nazirpur upazila of the district on Sunday.
Police arrested a youth in this connection.
The deceased was identified as Ankhi, daughter of Abdul Quader Sheikh, and a class-II student of a local primary school at Garghata village of the upazila.
M Babul Sheikh, brother of Ankhi, said his sister remained missing since she went to collect new texbooks distributed at her school on Wednesday afternoon.
At about 11.00am on Sunday, a local farmer spotted Ankhi's body at a rain tree garden of one Lutfor, adjacent to their house, and police recovered the body.
Since after the incident, their neighbour M Rezaul Sheikh's son Abdur Rab Sheikh, 28, remained absent from his house.
At this, Ankhi's family members suspected that Abdur Rab might have killed the girl taking her to the rain tree garden.
Acting on a tip-off, police detained fugitive Rab from Baburhat Bazar of the upazila.
Locals said Rab, who is a drug addict, mostly lives in Dhaka.
Abdul Khaleq Hawladar, officer in-charge of Nazirpur PS, said as there were many injury marks on Ankhi's body, police suspected that she had been killed after rape.
Ankhi's brother Babul Sheikh filed a case with the PS in this connection.
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