2 girls killed after \\\'rape\\\' in Madaripur

Two schoolgirls were killed allegedly after rape by miscreants in Madaripur Sadar upazila on Thursday. Officials at Sadar Hospital said four unidentified youths brought the two girls of Mustafapur High School to the hospital in a critical condition in the afternoon, claiming that the duo took poison to commit suicide. However, the girls, hailing from Mustafapur village, succumbed to their injuries around 5pm. Later, when two other youths of the village went to the hospital to enquire about the girls, its staff called the police who arrested them on suspicion of killing the girls after rape. Family members of both the victims said the girls went out of their houses to go to their private tutor in the afternoon. They alleged that local rogues, who had long been stalking the girls, picked them up on their way to the private tutor, raped them and forced them to take poison before taking them to the hospital. Sadar Hospital resident medical officer Shafiqul Islam Razib said the body of one of the victims bore many injury marks at its different parts, and suspected that the duo might have been poisoned after rape, according t6o a news agency.
-SRS