Preteen, teen gang-raped in the city
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in the capital’s Kamrangirchar area on Thursday night.
Five, aged around 18, raped the girl at an under-construction building in Rasulpur area between 6:30pm and 8:00pm after a female friend of the victim took her to the building, according to the case statement filed by the victim’s mother accusing six people.
Police yesterday arrested four and the victim’s female friend, 14. The other accused is on the run, said police.
ABM Moshiur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Kamrangirchar Police Station, said all the accused are locals and were known to the victim.
At that night, the victim’s family members rescued and took her to the police station. Police admitted her to the one-stop crisis centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the OC said, adding that her condition was stable.
In another incident, an 11-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in Bhatra area early yesterday, said Muktaruzzaman, OC of Bhatra Police Station.
Quoting the victim, her elder sister said four people raped and left her in Bhatra.
In the morning, locals found her and took her home.
She was admitted to the DMCH at night as her condition worsened.
These incidents happened less than a week after a Dhaka University student was raped and tortured in the capital’s Kurmitola area when she was walking from Kurmitola bus stop to a friend’s home nearby.
The rape of DU student sparked huge protests and condemnation. On Wednesday, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested alleged rapist Majnu in the capital’s Shewra.
On January 2, another 13-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a police source and two others in the capital’s Sabujbagh.
Police arrested the three after the victim’s mother lodged a case against them.
She was undergoing treatment at the DMCH.
Rights body Ain o Salish Kendra in its annual report released recently said rape victims doubled last year compared to that of 2018.
According to the report, 1,413 females were subjected to rape last year. Of them, 76 were killed after rape, and 10 others died by suicide. The number of the rape victims was 732 in 2018, it said.
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