A seven-year-old girl has been murdered after allegedly being raped in Rasulbagh of Siddhirganj upazila.
The deceased was identified as Tanjil, daughter of Anwar Miah, from Sultanpur village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district.
Anwar had been living in a rented room of a house belonging to Alam Khan in the area.
Family sources said Tanjil had been missing since Wednesday evening. Failing to trace her whereabouts, the victim's father filed a general diary with Siddhirganj police station.
Anwar, along with locals, resumed their search for the girl on Thursday. Later, they found Tanjil's body inside a storeroom at the house in the afternoon.
Upon receiving the information, police recovered the body and sent it to Narayanganj General Hospital for autopsy, Siddhirganj police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shahin Shah Parvez said.
Tanjil might have been strangled after the rape, he added.
"The body bore several injury marks," the OC concluded.
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