7-yr-old girl ‘raped’ in Feni

A seven-year-old girl has allegedly been raped by a youth in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni.

Police arrested the alleged rapist, Mohammad Bahar, 25, son of Ruhul Amin of Shilua village in the upazila, on Saturday after a case was filed over the incident.

MM Murshed, officer-in-charge of Chhagalnaiya police station, said the girl, from Kishoreganj district, had been living with her family at a rented house at Shilua.

Bahar took her to a nearby shop on Friday noon and raped her there, he said.

The victim's mother and sister found the girl in the shop after a hectic search when the 'rapist' managed to flee seeing them.