Day labourer's son abducted for ransom
A human-trafficking gang has allegedly kidnapped a son of a day labourer in Ukhia upazila and threatened that he will be sent to Malaysia forcefully if his family fails to pay them Tk 50,000 as ransom.
Ismail Hossain, son of Mir Ahmed of Gayalmara village, was picked up when he was going to his village mosque in the morning of November 9, victim's mother Monoara Begum alleged.
The next day, she got a phone call from the kidnappers who demanded the ransom and issued the threat.
Monoara in her general diary filed with Ukhia Police Station on Saturday alleged that Shafi Alam and Ramjan Ali of the same village abducted and took her son to Nayapara villagae in Teknaf upazila by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw.
The class VII student of Gayalmara Dakhil Madrasa is being confined to a “camp” set up by human traffickers in the village, she alleged.
The victim's mother also said the two “kidnappers”, who are siblings, have long been involved in trafficking people into Malaysia by the sea.
Sumon Chakrabarti, sub-inspector of Ukhia Police Station, said they were looking into the matter.
The SI also said the victim's family through some elderly villagers had been “trying to reach an understanding” with the criminals since the day of the abduction.
The family came to police after failing to get any trace of the missing boy, Sumon added.
Two more madrasa students, kidnapped in Teknaf on last Friday, were rescued the next day as they were about to be trafficked into Malaysia by the Bay of Bengal.
Trafficking by the sea to Thailand and Malaysia has been brought under the spotlight by the international media.
People trafficked through the route end up working for Thai fish industry or in Malaysia for a little pay or nothing at all, The Guardian revealed recently.
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