Teenage factory worker ‘gang-raped’ in Chattogram

A teenage female worker of a footwear factory has reportedly been gang-raped in Chattogram's Anowara upazila, reports UNB.

The victim's brother filed a case with Anowara police station on Thursday afternoon over the incident.

As per the case statement, the 15-year-old girl was returning home in Chandanaish upazila from her factory, Karnaphuli Shoe, in Korean Export Processing Zone in Anowara upazila on Wednesday. She took an auto-rickshaw along with two other passengers.

However, the auto-rickshaw driver and the passengers took the victim to a remote place of China Road and raped her one after another, said officer-in-charge Dulal Mahmud of the police station.

Later, locals spotted the victim in an unconscious condition on the spot around 8:00pm and took her to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

She regained her senses on Thursday morning, said assistant sub-inspector Alauddin Talukder of the CMCH police camp.