Girl found hanging from tree
The hanging body of a girl was found in Baraigram upazila of Natore early yesterday.
The dead is 12-year-old Halima Khatun, daughter of Abul Hashem of Garfa village in the upazila, said police.
Local fishermen saw the body hanging from a banyan tree by a swamp some 700 yards away from her house around 3:00am, said Dilip Kumar Das, officer-in-charge (OC) of Baraigram Police Station.
The OC said there was no injury mark on the body and the circumstantial evidences suggested the incident to be a suicide.
Police lodged an unnatural death case and sent the body to Natore Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy.
Meanwhile, Hashem, the girl’s father, said his daughter was “murdered” after being “raped”.
He alleged that two youths in the village often used to stalk his daughter, and they hanged her from the tree after raping her.
He, however, could not tell when his daughter went out of the house or if she was taken away.
OC Dilip said they found no evidence of rape and murder while visiting the spot.
He said the deceased’s father filed a general diary claiming that his daughter was raped and killed. “We will investigate the matter as soon as we receive the autopsy report”.
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