Teenage girl found dead in Laxmipur

Dhaka- Police recovered the body of a teenage girl from Shakchar village in sadar upazila on Saturday night.The victim was identified as Asma Begum, 14, daughter of Foyez Ahmed of the village.Asma’s mother went to her father’s workplace in Feni leaving her with the maternal grandmother, said the victim’s family members.

But, as she did not return home in the evening, her relatives started to search. After a frantic search, family members found the victim floating in a pond near their house.

Later, she was rushed to Sadar Hospital around 11:30 pm where the duty doctors declared her dead.

Family members claimed that the girl was killed after rape as several injury marks were spotted in the body.

The body was sent to the morgue for an autopsy, said Lokman Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Model Police Station.UNB