7-yr-old killed after rape
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly strangled to death after being violated by some unknown miscreants in Cantonment area in the city on Tuesday.
Police recovered the body of the ill-fated girl, Fatema Akter Dulu, daughter of Sadeq Kazi of Matikata area in Cantonment, tied in a polythene sack from a place in between two buildings at Matikata around 5:00pm.
They sent the body to Dhaka Medical College Morgue yesterday for autopsy. Morgue sources said the girl was strangled after being violated.
Locals said a few kids first detected the body while looking for their lost football around 3:00pm.
The girl's mother Jayeda Begum, a construction worker, told The Daily Star that before going to work she saw her daughter playing in front of their house.
"In the afternoon, our manager asked me to go home because my daughter was seriously ill," she said.
On her way home Jayeda saw a crowd surrounding something just 50 yards ahead of her house. "When I moved through the crowd I found my lovely child lying on the road," Jayeda said bursting into tears.
Dulu's elder sister Reshma Akter, who works as a domestic help, told The Daily Star that like any other day Dulu went out of the house for playing. "When I called her she said she was coming shortly but did not return," Reshma said.
Finding no trace of her sister as of 12:00noon on Tuesday, Reshma went to her work. "While returning home I heard the news," she said.
Jayeda Begum said she lost three of her four children in the last 11 years. Her son Abul Bashar drowned in a pond 11 years ago at the age of five and her younger son Shukkur died of pneumonia two years ago at the age of one and a half months, she said.
Her husband lives in Faridpur.
Jayeda filed a murder case with Cantonment Police Station yesterday. None was arrested as of filing this report at 8:00pm yesterday.
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