A 22-year-old girl working at a garment factory was slaughtered allegedly after rape by some unidentified criminals in front of her mother in Jamshing of Savar’s Radio Colony yesterday.
The miscreants also tried to kill the victim’s mother the same way. She sustained severe injuries in the throat and is now undergoing treatment at Enam Medical College and Hospital of Savar.
“We recovered the victim’s body around 8:30am upon information from a neighbour and sent it to Dhaka Medical College for post-mortem examination,” Taposh Kumar Bishwas, sub-inspector of Savar police station, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Police suspect that the killing might took place over previous enmity since the killers slaughtered the girl, stabbed her over a dozen times and cut off a body part. Taposh said the motive would be clear after the recovery of the victim’s mother, Shulekha.
Neighbour Shahnaz Begum told the Dhaka Tribune at the morgue that the victim used to work at a garment factory for a couple of years. The girl and her mother used to live at a rented house at Bhatpara Radio Colony.
“Mother of the victim came out of her house around 6am with a cloth wrapped around her throat. She was bleeding. Through signs, she asked me to give her a mobile phone. “As I gave her the phone, she dialled a number and became unconscious,” she said.
As Shahnaz screamed, other people gathered and took the mother to hospital. “We also found the victim’s body on the floor and called police.”
Mostafa Kamal, officer-in-charge of Savar police station, told the Dhaka Tribune that the number belonged to a nephew of the victim’s mother who identified himself as Rawshan Alam.
According to Rawshan, Shulekha’s husband Altaf Hossain lived in Muladuli area of Rajshahi with his second wife and used to visit Savar sometimes.
