An eleven-year-old mentally challenged girl was brutally raped near the airport area in the capital on Tuesday night.
The child was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a critical condition around 4:30am yesterday when she started to bleed excessively after the incident.
Mozammel Haque, in-charge of DMCH police outpost, told the Dhaka Tribune: “The child was first sent to a local clinic after she was rescued by the locals from in front of Hajj camp. Later, family members brought her to DMCH.”
“The child went through an operation due to excessive bleeding,” he added.
The coordinator Bilkis Begum of One-stop Crisis Center (OCC) at DMCH said: “The victim said she was raped by one person and that the person took her forcefully. The victim might be transferred to OCC tomorrow. Now she is at the post operative ward.”
The victim's mother, a home maker, told the Dhaka Tribune: “We live at Dhobadia area near the airport. On Tuesday night, while I was working in the kitchen, I suddenly noticed that my child was missing. When I was asking around for her, locals informed me that they saw a body lying in front of Hajj camp.”