One arrested over 7-yr-old girl murder in Ctg

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Friday arrested a man for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murdering of a seven-year-old girl 10 days after she went missing in the city.

Illias Khan, PBI inspector in Chattogram, said that Abir Ali, an ex-tenant of the victim’s family, abducted the girl on November 15 for ransom on her way to a mosque where she used to learn Arabic in the Bandartila area in Chattogram.

Ali strangled the girl to death and later chopped her into six pieces after taking her to a residence on Akmal Ali Road in the city. He subsequently dumped the body wrapped in two bags at a beach in the city’s Kattali area, the PBI officer said.

“We are trying to recover the body from the beach and seize the sharp weapons used for killing,” he said.

The victim’s father, Sohel Rana, lodged a GD at the local police station after she went missing, police said.