Missing Mirpur girls: RAB finds remaining 3

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday found the last three of eight girls who went missing from Dhaka’s Mirpur.

RAB 4 Commanding Officer (CO) Mozammel Haque said: “The girls went to Cox's Bazar. A team of RAB tracked them there. They returned to Dhaka on Wednesday morning and were found in the Beribadh area of Abdullahpur, Dhaka.”

After leaving their homes, their Facebook accounts were deactivated and mobile phones destroyed, according to the CO.

According to police, the three girls, aged 16-18, left their homes in college uniforms with a large sum of money, gold jewellery and their academic and birth certificates on Thursday. They have been missing since then.

RAB suspects the teenagers left their house willingly to visit Cox’s Bazar.

According to RAB, the girls claimed that a woman named Hafsa helped them to reach Cox’s Bazar. After their disappearance last Thursday, they were taken to Kamalapur first, via a car.

The elite force is yet to verify the teenagers’ claims.

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Earlier, on Saturday, the elder sister of one of the girls, lawyer Qazi Rowshan Dil Afroj, filed a case with Pallabi police station under the Women and Child Repression Prevention Act against the four people who were later arrested by the police, and another four unidentified persons.

The arrestees were identified as  Md Tariqullah, 19, Md Rakibullah, 20, Zinnia alias Tiktok Zinnia Rose, 18, and Sharfuddin Ahmed Ayon, 18, confirmed Pallabi police station OC Parvez Islam.

Later, a Dhaka court placed Rakibullah on two days’ remand and sent the other three to jail.

On Tuesday, police found five of the girls who had gone missing.

Among the five teenagers found first, two were found from Dhaka’s Sadarghat area, two from Netrokona and one from Gazipur, said police. 

Our Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) correspondent reports that Detective Branch (DB) officials admitted the two Mirpur girls at the DMCH one-stop crisis center (OCC) for physical examination. 

Dr Bilkis Begum, the OCC coordinator, said that forensic tests have conducted on the duo.