RMG worker gang-raped in Chattogram

A case was filed against four unidentified men yesterday for allegedly gang-raping a 20-year-old ready-made garment worker in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila on Wednesday night.

According to the case statement, the victim was returning home from her workplace around 9:00pm with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw that already had three men in it.

The men in the auto-rickshaw abducted the girl and took her to an isolated place near Boiragi union’s China Road. Two of the men then gang-raped her.

Later, they took the girl in the auto-rickshaw and dumped her beside Chattogram-Anwara road. The criminals also called the victim’s family members and informed them about the incident, the case statement added.

The victim was rescued by her family members and rushed to Karnaphuli Upazila Health Complex. She was later shifted to

Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.

Dulal Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Anwara Police Station, said a case was filed with his police station at noon in this connection.

Police are trying to identify and arrest the culprits, he added.