STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Ctg

Police recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl from a warehouse in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila yesterday.

The victim, Afrin Aktar, a madrasa student, was missing for two days, said police.

Police suspect that she was raped before being murdered and later dumped inside the warehouse.

Kazi Tarek Aziz, additional superintendent of police (Hathazari circle), told The Daily Star, “One eye of the victim was gouged out, and her face was covered in blood.”

“She had been missing since Thursday after going out of her house. Today (yesterday), locals found a foul smell coming out from a cotton warehouse. There they discovered the body and later informed police,” he said.

CCTV footage shows that a man identified as Faisal, a day labourer and neighbour of the victim, took the girl into the warehouse and left by himself after some time.

During the inquest, circumstantial evidence suggested that she may have been raped before death. This will be confirmed following an autopsy, added the official.

The body has been sent to CMCH morgue, he said. Police are trying to arrest the suspect, he added.