Kidnapped schoolboy murdered in Barisal
The decomposed body of an eight-year-old boy, strangled by kidnappers after the boy's father failed to provide the ransom, was found inside a sack floating in Meghna river under Hizla upazila of Barisal yesterday, said police.
Arafat, a student of class II and son of Liakat Ali, a small trader of the capital's Mirpur-14, was kidnapped from near his Kachukhet residence in the capital on December 12.
Two men -- Nasir, Arafat's neighbour, and Badal -- arrested in this connection on December 14 confessed that they strangled the boy and dumped the body in the river after failing to get the ransom, said police.
Nasir called Liakat over phone on December 14 and demanded a ransom of Tk 2 lakh.
“Nasir threatened to kill his son if the money was not paid through bKash by December 14 evening,†said Sub-Inspector Nurul Amin of Kafrul Police Station, quoting Liakat.
Police tracked the cellphone and raided a launch terminal in Hizla to make the arrests.
The duo confessed that they had strangled the boy just an hour before being arrested at the launch terminal, said Officer-in-Charge Shawkat Anwar of Hizla Police Station.
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