9-year-old girl raped, 'killed'

Police arrested four persons, including a college student, Wednesday night on charges of alleged rape and killing of a nine-year-old house worker at the capital's Uttara.
The arrestees include her employer Khademul Bashar, his brother-in-law and an HSC examinee Jubaer Hossain, 18, and Bashar's two "acquaintances"--Kamrul Hasan and Rafiqul Islam.
Police said Kamrul and Rafiqul took the victim, Jannat Akhter, to a private hospital on Wednesday night where she was declared dead. They said the girl "committed suicide by hanging".
"The doctors doubted the claim and informed us," said Sub-inspector Nazrul Islam of Uttara (West) Police Station. "We immediately visited the house with the two youths and rounded up the four."
According to police inquest report and morgue sources, Jannat was raped. The SI said police would perform a viscera test to confirm whether she was poisoned to death or killed in any other ways.
Jannat worked at Bashar's house at Uttara Sector-7 for nine months.
A relative of the victim suspected Jubaer and his sister Sanzida Begum, wife of Bashar, to be involved in the killing. Sanzida fled following the incident.