Published : 21 Mar 2026, 04:28 AM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 03:30 PM
Two teenagers have confessed to strangling a 4-year-old girl in Mymensingh’s Iswarganj Upazila to allegedly fund their drug addiction.
In a statement before the court on Friday, the duo said they killed Mariam Akter after snatching her silver necklace to manage cash, said Atharabari Police Investigation Centre chief Md Abdur Razzaq.
Mariam's body was recovered from a clay stove next to her house around 6pm on Thursday, hours after she went missing, said Ishwarganj Police chief Rabiul Azam.
She was the daughter of Mizanur Rahman, who filed a case later at night, leading to the arrest of two adolescent boys aged 15 and 16.
One of them was her cousin.
Police said the duo abducted the girl from her house around 1pm on Thursday. After killing her, they tried to hide the body in the stove.
Locals said they were irritated by the “drug addicts”, who would commit any possible crime to fund their addiction.
A number of arbitrations were held for them in the past, but in vain, they added.
Officer Razzak said they sold the necklace for Tk 1,200 to a local jeweller, which was later recovered.
After her postmortem, the child was buried in the family graveyard, he added.
