'Abducted' schoolgirl, boy found killed

Police recovered the body of a nine-year-old girl at Garabari village in Singra upazila of Natore on Friday, three days into her 'missing'.

Deceased Mim Khatun, daughter of Nurajit of the village, was a Class IV student at Sharishabari Primary School, reports our correspondent.

Police arrested her two neighbours, Akbar Ali and Ayesha Begum on murder charge.

Mahbub Hossain, sub-inspector of Singra Police Station, quoting the girl's family members said, Mim remained missing since she went out of her residence on Wednesday. Locals spotted her body floating in a local ditch on Friday evening.

Nurajit, father of the victim, filed a murder case with the police station, accusing seven people in this connection, said Shafiqul Islam, officer in-charge of the police station.

Our Moulvibazar correspondent adds: police on Friday recovered the beheaded body of a two-year-old kid from a pond at Mirzapur village in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district, after five days into his abduction.

Police said, criminals abducted Mahinur Ahmed Mahi, son of Shamim Ahmed of the village, from in front of his residence on December 22.

Abdul Based, officer in-charge of Madhabpur Police Station, said there had been a longstanding rivalry between Shamim and his neighbour Bilal Miah, over the ownership of a piece of land.

Police on Wednesday night arrested his three neighbours, Alamgir Hosain, 45, Bilal Mia, 41, and his wife Samrat Banu, 34, following a case filed by Shamim on Tuesday night.

The boy might have been killed and dumped in the pond over previous enmity, the OC added.