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lured her to a nearby litchi orchard on Saturday night.

When the girl, aged around 17 and belonging to an ethnic minority community, went to the location, Labu and his accomplices Ashraful and Omar restrained and raped her. The rapists fled when the girl lost consciousness.

Unable to contact her, the victim’s family members started searching for her and found her unconscious and bleeding around 3:00am on Sunday morning. She was rushed to hospital.

Meanwhile, the accused threatened the family with dire consequences if they disclosed the incident, according to the FIR.

On Sunday night, the victim’s father filed the case and police arrested the three accused later that night.

According to data available from Bangladesh Peace Observatory’s website, at least 23 sexual assault incidents have taken place in Dinajpur in 2020.

One victim has died.

Five incidents each took place in Dinajpur Sadar and Nawabganj upazila in the district.