Suspected rapist, killer of Wari child held in Cumilla

Detectives in a drive in Cumilla on Sunday arrested the prime suspect in the killing of six-year-old girl after rape at Wari in Dhaka.

They arrested Harun-or-Rashid, a construction painter by profession, at Darbardanga in Titas upazila in Cumilla.

Harun used to live in the same building at Wari where the victim’s family resides.

Tipped off, a team of DB east division conducted a drive in the area and arrested Harun around 11:30am, said Abdul Baten, additional commissioner of DB.

The victim was found dead at a nine-storey building of Wari on Friday night.

Later, victim’s father filed a case with Wari Police Station.

After conducting a postmortem, Sohel Mahmud, head of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s forensic medicine department, said, the child was murdered after rape as they found the evidence of rape on the victim’s body.

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