A teenager who was sexually assaulted succumbed to her injuries after two days in Noakhali yesterday.
The deceased Josna Begum, 17, hailed from Char Kalmi village under Companiganj upazila of the district.
Victim’s parents said Belayet Hossain of Gangcil village had been disturbing her over phone. Some six miscreants forcibly abducted her last Monday around 7pm, they said, adding that they searched but could not find her anywhere in the village.
Md Forkan Uddin, a village police, found her body lying beside a canal the next morning and rushed her to the Companiganj Upazila Health Complex. As her condition deteriorated, she was transferred to Noakhali Medical College Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.
The body was sent to the morgue for an autopsy. Family members of Josna claimed that she was raped and killed.
However, Dr Morjina Faruk, a gynaecologist of the hospital, said three pieces of bloody clothes were found inside her uterus, but they did not find any symptom of rape.
Sajidur Rahaman, officer-in-charge of Companiganj police station, said a case would be filed following the autopsy report.
