OUR CORRESPONDENT, Tangail

Three teenagers, arrested on charges of killing a seven-year-old girl in Tangail’s Dhanbari upazila recently, have confessed before magistrates, police said yesterday.

Tangail Court Inspector Sazzad Hossain told The Daily Star that police produced the accused before the Tangail Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Magistrates recorded their confessional statements under Section 164.

During the statements, the teenagers admitted that two of them raped the child before killing her, while the third assisted in the crime.

The magistrates later sent the accused, aged between 13 and 16, to the Youth Development Centre in Gazipur.

The victim, Maria, was the daughter of Uzzal Hossain of Baraipara village in Jadunathpur union.

Nurus Salam, officer-in-charge of Dhanbari Police Station, said Maria went missing on January 26. Her father filed a general diary (GD) with the police station the same day.

On February 1, locals reported

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