<i>Senseless beating takes the kid's life</i>
A 9-year-old girl was beaten to death allegedly by playmate, his father and elder brother on Saturday in Mujgunni residential area under Khalishpur police station.
Victim Shahinoor Akhter Tanni was daughter of rickshaw puller Khalil Shikder and student of class two at a school in Boyra.
The sad incident followed a quarrel over possession of a toy cell phone with her playmate Nirob.
Tanni was beaten up mercilessly with an iron rod in a roadside shop by Nirab, his father Badal Howlader and elder brother Mouje Ali, said OC of Khalishpur police station.
She was rushed to Khulna Medical College and Hospital (KMCH) with serious head injury where the doctors declared her dead.
Khalil Shikder, father of the slain girl filed a case with Khalishpur police station Saturday night accusing the three of murder.
A member of Boyra Shishu Shargo Khelaghar Ashor, Tanni's autopsy was done at 10:00 am yesterday at the KMCH morgue.
None of the FIR-named accused was arrested till filing of this report yesterday evening.
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