Police rescued five girls, of the eight who went missing from the capital’s Mirpur area, from Dhaka and Netrakona in the last two days.

According to the law enforcers, two of the rescued girls were “raped during their abduction”.

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The teenage rape victims were admitted to One-Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday after police rescued them on Monday.

DMCH doctors found marks of abuse on the victims after conducting tests on them, said sources.

Bilkis Begum, coordinator of the OCC at DMCH, said, “The forensic tests were conducted on them and we’ll be able to say what happened once we get the reports.”

The Detective Branch (DB) of police said two friends went out of their homes in Mirpur Ansar Camp around 10:00pm on September 29.

While roaming around the area, four youths, who were known to the victims from before, abducted them, they added.

The girls were confined at a flat in the capital and repeatedly raped in the last four days, said one of the victim’s family members.

Scared, they headed towards Barishal by a launch instead of returning home. Police rescued them from Sadarghat on their way, the victim’s family said while this correspondent visited them last night.

Manas Kumar Podder, deputy commissioner of DB (Mirpur division), said they were conducting raids to arrest the accused.

“A case would be filed in this regard soon,” he added.

Meanwhile, a team of Mirpur Police Station rescued two other teenagers from Durgapur area of Netrakona.        

The girls’ family members filed general dairies with the police station after they went missing last Friday, said Mostajirur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station.

Police traced the girls in Netrakona with two youths named Sagar and Rabbi, he said, adding that both the youths are residents of the area. “We are interrogating them.”

On the other hand, another teenage girl went missing from her house in Rupnagar last Friday.

Rupnagar Police Station OC Arifur Rahman said they started an investigation and rescued the girl from one of her friend’s house in the capital’s Uttarkhan area after her family filed a general diary.

“It seems that the girl went out of her home following a family feud,” he added.

On Thursday, in a separate incident, three teenage friends left their homes without saying anything to their families.

One of them took Tk 6 lakh in cash, another took 2.5 tola of gold ornaments and the other took Tk 75,000.

They also took SSC certificates, birth certificates and several mobile phones from their houses. Police could not trace them as of yet.

Elder sister of one of the missing teenagers filed a case with Pallabi Police Station, under the Women and Child Repression Prevention Act, against 10 people on Saturday — citing the names of the four.

She feared that the girls were trafficked abroad.

In connection with the case, a youth was placed on a two-day remand on Sunday while the remand hearing of three other arrestees would be held after determining their age.

Asked, ASM Mahtab Uddin, deputy commissioner of Mirpur division police, said that they had some leads regarding the girl’s whereabouts.

“We are working with the clues and hopeful to rescue the girls soon,” he added.



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