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Bangladesh: Seven year old Wari girl raped before murder

| @indiablooms | Jul 06, 2019, at 04:19 pm

Dhaka, July 6 (IBNS): Body of a seven-year-old girl, who was recovered from  an under-construction building at Dhaka’s Wari area, was raped before she was murdered, media reports said.

DNA test result and other examinations confirm that the victim, Samia Afrin Sayma, was raped and then strangled with a rope, Dr Sohel Mahmud, head of the DMC Forensic Medicine Department was quoted as saying by The Daily Star after an autopsy on her body. 

Sayma, daughter of Abdus Salam and a student of Silverdale School, was found dead on the eighth floor of the building where a construction work was going on, Azizur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Wari Police Station, told The Daily Star.

She was missing for several hours.

Her parents search the building and found her body, reports said.

A case as been filed in connection with the matter.

Police said six people have been detained in connection with the incident.

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