Unidentified criminals killed a schoolgirl by slitting her throat at her house on Bhagolpur lane in the capital’s Hazaribagh yesterday.
The victim, Tasnin Rahman Karobi, 13, was a sixth grader at Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Rifles College at Pilkhana.
Tasnin’s maternal aunt Shetu Ahmed found the blood-stained body around 5:30pm in a room of the victim’s apartment on the second floor of a seven-storey building.
Shetu went downstairs to ask Tasnin to have food with her, but saw the main door of the apartment open.
The schoolgirl was lying on a bed with her throat slit. A blood-stained kitchen knife was beside her head and a piece of galvanised iron (GI) wire was under her neck.
Tasnin was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared her dead.
Victim’s father SM Mizanur Rahman and mother Farhana Ahmed are lawyers at a Dhaka court. They were at the court when the murder was committed.
Farhana said gold jewellery weighing about three and a half tolas was missing from her apartment.
Tasnin’s younger brother was with her until 2:00pm. Then he went to his grandmother’s apartment on the third floor of the building.
The girl was alone at his home since 3:30pm when a housemaid left the apartment after finishing her work.
Police suspected the murder suspects might be known to the victim’s family.
-With The Daily Star input
