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1 March 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Manikganj

Police yesterday recovered body of a girl child from a paddy field in Dhutrabari area under Shivalaya Police Station. Anamika Ghosh, 8, daughter of Brahmanpur trader Sudharam Gosh, and a student of class three in Dhaka, was abducted from Keraniganj on February 25, police said. Criminals in a private car abducted her when she was returning home from her school, uncle of Anamika said, quoting locals. The abductors demanded Tk 10 lakh for her release. Her parents even gave them Tk 2 lakh but they demanded the full amount. Abductors killed the girl as her father failed to pay the ransom money, Shivalaya Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Azizul Haque said, adding they later dumped the body in the paddy field. The body was sent to Manikganj Sadar Hospital morgue for post-mortem.