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Locals demonstrate in front of Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday with the body of a 10-year-old girl, not in picture, demanding exemplary punishment to persons who raped and murdered the girl in a building in Topekhana on January 14.Photo: STAR
In another incident of cruelty, a little girl was raped and then murdered. The 10-year-old girl's decomposed body was recovered from a bathroom of Tropicana Tower in the capital on Saturday. She went missing on January 14. Doctors at Dhaka Medical College morgue said the girl's body bore signs of rape and tussle. She apparently died from stabs in her throat, they added. Locals yesterday held a procession with the body demanding punishment to the perpetrators. Her family alleged she was raped and killed by some employees of three travel agencies on the third floor of the building. The girl used to help her mother in their business of supplying lunch to employees of offices and shops. On the afternoon of January 14, she went to the third floor of Tropicana Tower to bring back the empty lunch pots. She used to live with her widowed mother Nurjahan Begum and four siblings in a shanty at Segunbagicha. "I don't know how she was killed. But I guess Selim, Mostafa and Nazrul killed Ritu [the girl] when she went to the office on Monday afternoon to bring back the lunch pots," said Nurjahan. Six people--the trio, building manager Shahab Uddin and two security guards Shekandar Ali and Nurul Islam--were arrested in this connection. During interrogation, the suspects denied their involvement in the crime, said police. Meanwhile, Workers' Party of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Mahila Parishad demanded punishment of the culprits.
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