Minor girl gang-raped in Rajshahi

A tenth grader girl was allegedly abducted and raped by five or six youths in Rajshahi on Wednesday night.

The alleged crime occurred around 7:30pm when the minor girl was coming back home from a relative's place alone on a battery-run rickshaw after iftar in Kachupara.

As the rickshaw carrying the girl and two others was passing through a desolate area in Puthia upazila, the miscreants armed with sharp weapons ambushed the vehicle.

The miscreants robbed the passengers of their money and mobile phones and then forcibly took the girl to a nearby banana orchard, where they took turns to rape her, according to the minor survivor.

The girl later managed to reach the Begar Mor area and narrated her ordeal to a passersby.

Puthia police station OC Suhrawardy Hossain said he was yet to receive any written complaint from the girl's family.

"However, the crime scene has been identified and efforts are on to nab the perpetrators of the crime,” he added.