Three in Narayanganj kill child for screaming during ‘attempted rape’, say police

One of the suspects has confessed in court to the crime

A fifth-grader in Narayanganj's Bandar Upazila has been abducted and strangled to death after she screamed while resisting an attempted rape, police say.

Bandar Police chief Golam Muktar Ashraf said one of the three arrested suspects gave a confessional statement under Section 164 on Wednesday.

He said one suspect was arrested on Tuesday night and two others on Wednesday afternoon with assistance from RAB and the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

The arrested men have been identified with the single names Faisal, alias Badsha, 29, Ismail, 40, and Emon, 25.

Officer Ashraf said Faisal confessed to the incident, saying the child was abducted from a road outside her home and taken to a room, where the suspects attempted to rape her. When the girl began screaming, they strangled her to death.

"All three arrested men are drug users and were directly involved in the killing," Ashraf added.

Police said after news of Faisal's arrest spread, relatives of the victim and angry locals vandalised his house on Wednesday morning.

The 13-year-old girl went missing from the road outside her home around 4pm on Sunday.

Her body was recovered the following morning outside a neighbour's house.

Later, the girl's mother filed a case with Bandar Police, accusing unnamed suspects of abducting and killing her daughter.