Schoolgirl 'raped' in Sylhet

A fourth-grader schoolgirl was raped allegedly by two youths at Khursupur village in Sylhet's Osmaninagar upazila on Saturday, reports UNB.

Locals said the girl was collecting vegetables from the field near her house in the morning around 10:00am.

Then Ismail and his associate Hafizur ushered the girl to an under construction building site where they forcibly raped her, they added.

Hearing the scream of the girl, locals rushed in and the rapists managed to flee the scene.

Later, the girl was taken to one stop crisis centre at Osmani Medical College Hospital, locals also said.

Al-Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Osmaninagar police station, said soon after the incident, police arrested one rapist - Ismail, 26, son of Chadik Ullah of the village.

Police started conducting drives to arrest the other rapist Hafizur. A case was filed with the police station in this connection, the OC added.