Riya was murdered
The two-and-half-year-old girl found dead at the Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound centre of Dhaka Medical College on Tuesday was murdered.
A post-mortem report revealed yesterday that she died of suffocation.
The autopsy found fingerprints on the girl's mouth indicating someone suffocated her by pressing her mouth with his or her hand. The report also revealed she had been hit on the abdomen with a heavy object.
Ishrat Jahan Riya, daughter of Rozina Begum from Hazaribagh, was found dead on the staircase of the centre around 12:00 noon. She went missing from the outpatient department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) at 10:30am.
Police arrested a part-time DMCH attendant in connection with the incident.
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