Five girls, four of whom were adolescents, were raped in the city yesterday.
The victims are now admitted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Of the adolescents, one hailing from Sherpur and another from Pirojpur were violated by four staff members of a public bus service “Labbaik” Paribahan yesterday in the city’s Mugda area.
Two girls were going to Savar by bus after their daily work in a local fan manufacturing factory in Jatrabari area.
As the two did not know the location, they asked the bus staff to drop them at the right place.
However, the bus driver Ahmed Sheikh, 28, and the helper Hasnan, 23, kept the two adolescents in the dark.
Without telling them that they reached Savar, the bus staff brought the two adolescents back to Mugda and forcibly took them to a workshop where they were violated.
The two other associates of the bus staff, Shaon and Kuddus, joined them.
One of the victims managed to escape using the sanitary pipe of the washroom of the building.
The escapee let the building’s security guard Mohammad Humayun about this incident and sought his help.
Humayun with the help of locals detained one of the rapists trying to flee and called police.
Mugda police went to the spot and arrested one from the spot. The other two, however, managed to escape.
Md Mostafizur Rahman, inspector of Mugda police station, said: “We are trying to arrest the other culprits.”
In another incident, a 10-year-old madrassa student was violated by an elderly man in Darussalam area in Mirpur of the city.
The rape incident of another adolescent took place in Demra area of the capital. A 14-year-old girl fell victim to such abuse.
In another incident, a garment worker hailing from Jhenaidah was raped by her own brother-in-law Tarikul Islam in Savar, said Sub-Inspector Asaduzzaman of Savar police station. Savar police filed a rape case against the perpetrator.
Dr Bilkis Begum, duty doctor of the DMCH, told the Dhaka Tribune that forensic tests of the victims would be done tomorrow.
