7 sued for killing Madaripur girls after rape

A case has been filed against 7 people on Friday noon in connection with the killing two schoolgirls after rape in Madaripur Sadar Upazila. Father of one of the victims filed the case around 3pm, said officer-in-charge of Madaripur Sadar Police Station Ziaul Morshed. Earlier in the morning, Superintended of Police of the district Sarwar Hossain visited the spot. On Thursday, some unidentified miscreants allegedly killed the two girls after violating them in Sadar upazila. 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. The girls, hailing from Mustafapur village, succumbed to their injuries around 6pm. Later, when two other young men 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 multiple injury marks at its different parts, and suspected that the girls might have been poisoned after rape, according to a news agency.
- mbz