14-year-old schoolgirl hacked to death outside home in Rayerbazar

A young man who used to pester her on the phone carried out the attack, her mother says

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A 14-year-old schoolgirl has been hacked to death in Dhaka’s Rayerbazar.

The attack took place outside her home around 9pm on Wednesday.

Her relatives took her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 10:15pm, where doctors declared her dead.

The victim Shahriar Sharmin Binti was the eldest of fish trader Bellal Hossain’s two children.

Speaking to journalists at the hospital, her mother Nadia Begum said: “Around 8pm, Binti and her brother Nabil went downstairs.

“After buying vegetables, Nabil left his sister outside the building and went to the mosque. Hearing loud noises, I went downstairs and saw many people surrounding my daughter.”

Alleging that a young man known by a single name Siam hacked her daughter and fled, Nadia said: “For the past three to four years, Siam had been disturbing Binti on her mobile phone.

“One day, I scolded him over the phone. Today, he hacked my daughter to death. I want justice for my daughter’s murder.”

Inspector Md Faruk, chief of the DMCH police camp, said the girl had multiple injuries on her shoulder and back.

Her body has been kept at the morgue for post-mortem.