A teenager was allegedly beaten to death by a group of drug peddlers at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar district yesterday.
The victim was identified as Sarwar Islam, 16, hailing from west area of Hila Leda of Teknaf.
The father of the victim, Abdus Shukur, told the Dhaka Tribune that on 12th January, a team from the Rapid Action Battalion-7 arrested Minara Begum, wife of a neighboring resident Nur Mohammad, from Hila Leda and recovered 50,000 Yaba tablets and Tk 3.89 lakh in cash from her possession.
“Later, local criminals led by Nur Mohammad detained my son (Sarwar) suspecting him to be a RAB informer and assaulted him indiscriminately,” said Shukur.
“We rescued him from them and took him to a local clinic where he succumbed to his injuries on Friday,” he added.