Seven-year-old boy murdered in Dhaka, half-brother held

Police in Dhaka have arrested man over the murder of his 7-year-old half-brother.

Md Simran was found dead on Thursday evening on a boat on the banks of the Turag River, said Uttarkhan police’s Sub- Inspector Md Anwar Hossain Khan.

The boy used to live with his father Nasir Uddin and mother Sufia Begum at Uzampur. Nasir’s son from his previous marriage, 22-year-old Bappi, lives in Gazipur, but often visited his father.

 

Quoting family members and neighbours, the police officer said that Bappi and Simran went to the banks of Turag River in afternoon, when the 7-year-old was strangled to death.

Locals nabbed Bappi and reported to the police.

The boy’s mother has started a murder case with the local police and Bappi has been formally arrested in the case, said Sub-Inspector Khan.