7-year-old girl’s throat slit, head severed in Dhaka’s Pallabi

Police allege a neighbour, 32-year-old Sohel, raped and murdered the girl

A girl from Dhaka’s Pallabi has allegedly been killed by her next-door neighbour.

The victim was identified as Lamisa, a seven-year-old.

The suspect has been identified as Sohel, 32.

Police said the child’s body was recovered from a flat in a building in Pallabi Section 11.

They say Sohel severed her head from her body after the killing.

Hasan Bashir, chief of Pallabi Police Station, said: “Initially, we learnt that the child was murdered when her throat was slit after she was raped.”