Girl abducted, two others rescued in 3 districts

A schoolgirl was abducted yesterday in Natore while a college girl and a schoolgirl were rescued on Monday in Jhenidah and Patuakhali.
A Correspondent from Natore reports: Criminals abducted a schoolgirl from Perebaria area under Bagatipara municipality in Bagatipara upazila yesterday. Tamanna,12, is daughter of Tozammel Haque of village Sobgram.
Police and villagers said, Tamanna was abducted while she was going to school in the morning. A gang of local criminals waylaid her near Perabaria food godown and took her to an unknown place by a motorbike.
Tamanna's father later filed a general diary with Bagatipara police station.
In Patuakhali, relatives on Monday rescued a student of Patuakhali Government Girls' School eight hours after her abduction from near the school gate, reports our correspondent.
Police arrested Matin, 25, of Kathpatti in the town, for his alleged involvement in kidnapping the girl, Fatima Akhter Dina.
"Fatima started for her school with a classmate at about 8:00am. When she reached near the school gate, a gang of five or six people including a woman forcibly took her into a microbus and left the place," said the girl's uncle Md Zafar Ahmed, vice principal of the college.
Relatives rescued the girl from Sadar Road at about 4:00pm, he said.
The girl stays at Zafar Ahmed's house at Collegepara in Patuakhali town for her study there.
Her parents live in their village home in Baufal upazila.
Our correspondent from Jhenidah reports: A girl student of Government Nurun Nahar College was kidnapped on Monday afternoon by some youths of the municipal area. Police immediately launched a drive and rescued her at night from Udaypur area of the town.
The girl, Shamima Sultana Roni, is the daughter of Shafi Uddin of Gobindapur.
The duty officer at Jhenidah Sadar police station said, the youths kidnapped her when she was going to town from her hostel.
A case was filed against six including Shamim and Rasel of Pabohati, Shohag and Sifat of Porahati and Arif of Khajura but none was arrested till filing of this report yesterday.