Abducted boy killed, 2 kidnappers held

Police recovered the decomposed body of a seven-year-old boy hours after detaining two abductors in the capital's Kadamtoli yesterday.

The deceased was Arif. The arrestees, Shamrat, 19, and Yasin, 13, who worked with Arif's father Liton at a workshop at Kadamtali, during primary interrogation admitted that they kidnapped Arif from the front of his house in Jurain area on Tuesday evening and killed him that night in an under-developed housing project area at Hasnabad.

The duo a plan to demand a ransom of Tk 60,000 from Liton, police said.