The police found a five-year-old girl dead inside an underground water tank in the staff quarters of Dhaka Medical College Hospital at Nilkhet on Thursday afternoon.
The police suspected that Sanjida Akhter, daughter of a green grocer on Elephant Road, a resident of Matuali of Jatrabari, she might have been strangled.
The police and Fires Service and Civil Defence people, on a tip-off, recovered the body.
The victim’s mother Jahida Begum said Sanjida had been missing since Wednesday morning when she went to the area her with her father. ‘We searched for her but she could not be traced.’
She said that Sanjida had been killed and thrown into the water tank.
A case was filed, the New Market police said.
Courtesy of New Age
