12-year-old strangled to death over 'stolen mobile phone' in Sirajganj

A 12-year-old boy was strangled to death over a stolen mobile phone set at the Boro Koaliber village in Sirajganj's Ullapara upazila today. 

The deceased Md Emon Hossain was the son of Amirul Islam. He was a sixth grader at Boro Koaliber High School, reports our Pabna correspondent quoting police. 

Police arrested the accused Md Akram Hossain (15) after recovering the body of the victim from a field today.

"Emon found out that Akram had stolen a mobile phone and informed the matter to others which angered Akram. He later took Emon to a field and strangled him with a towel (Gamcha) and left the body there, nearly half a kilometer from his house," said Ullapara Police Station Sub-inspector Md Hujjatul Hussain said.

The body was sent to Sirajganj General Hospital morgue for an autopsy, the SI said. 

"As the accused is under aged he will be sent to the juvenile court and from there to a juvenile correction center," Dipak Kumar, officer-in-charge of Ullapara Police Station, told The Daily Star.