Miscreants hacked a schoolgirl to death at Melandah upazila in the district yesterday.
The deceased was Surja Begum, a student of class IV of Baluhata Govt Primary School and daughter of Kuddus Ali, a day labourer.
Sources said the miscreants entered the house of Kuddus after he went to work. They hacked Surja while she was sleeping.
Hearing screaming, Hanufa Begum, mother of the girl reached the spot and found her lying in blood. She rushed her to Jamalpur Hospital where doctors on duty declared her dead.
Abdul Halim, officer-in-charge of Melandah police station, said police arrested a youth named Ashraf in connection with the murder. A case was filed.
The police said the cause behind the murder could not be known.
Hanufa said some miscreants in the area used to disturb her daughter while she went to school.
