Bangladesh - Protests after 8-year-old rape victim dies, 13 March 2025

[Rikissa]

An eight-year-old girl has died after having been raped in the night of 5 March and the following morning. She was visiting her older married sister's home in Magura when it happened, and the girl died after having spent six days in a critical condition in a hospital in Dhaka. The older sister's husband, his parents, and a brother was arrested after the rape, and when the news of the child's death came, an angry mob burned the house where the crime had happened.

Bangladesh: Fierce protests as eight-year-old rape victim dies

An angry mob set fire to the house where the rape is alleged to have taken place.

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[Rikissa]

It seems that it was her sister's father-in-law who were the rapist.

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