RAJSHAHI, Apr 5: Ladies Organisation for Welfare, a local NGO, has expressed concern over increase in violence against children in the district in recent times. It also expressed grave concern at the increased number of kidnapping of children, especially, of students, throughout the country.
According to Children's Right Forum, another NGO, at least 80 children were kidnapped throughout the country within last two months.
The recent incident was the kidnapping of four children from Singra upazila of Natore district. The abducted students were identified as Tarek, Raju, Rocky and Sourav who came to Natore for shopping on Wednesday afternoon. In the evening, Kanchon, one of friends of Raju, took four of them to take tea at a stall from Alaipur Boipatti area of Natore town.
After taking tea, those four friends lost consciousness and were taken at the back side of Muslim Institute, a solitary place and were tied and beaten. Kanchon, with some of his accomplices, snatched away all the money the four friends had with them and demanded Tk 100,000 ransom from them, otherwise threatened to kill them.
As the four abducted friends had no more money to pay them, one of them contacted his brother-in-law at Singra who sent Tk 4,000 to the abductors through bKash and informed the incident to police.
Natore and Singra thana police, by following the call number, detected the position of the abductors using sophisticated technology and arrested two of the abductors. They were identified as Kanchon of Alaipur area and Shamim Reza of Boro Harishpur area of Natore town. Police later rescued all four abducted students who were students of a local high school.
On Wednesday noon, police recovered two deadbodies of primary school girls from inside a maize field at Boglauri village under Durlavpur union of Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district. The girls were identified as Latifa (9), daughter of Abdul Latif and Akhi (9), daughter of Ashraful Alam of village Kanchira of Paka union of the same upazila.
However, no one has so far been arrested in this connection.
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