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Probe report in Wari child murder case July 24
DHAKA, July 6, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today set July 24 to submit probe report in the case
filed over rape and subsequently murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in capital’s Wari
area on Friday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman passed the order, accepting the ejahar filed in
the case.
Saima’s father Abdus Salam filed the case under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act
with Wari Police Station this morning and police so far has detained five including the owner of
the building, where Saima’s family is living.
Meanwhile, forensic experts have said the little girl was raped before being strangled to
death with a rope.
Dr Sohel Mahmud of Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital said these after
conducting autopsy on Saima’s body.
Saima, nursery-grade student of Silverdale School went missing after going out to play on
Friday afternoon. Her body was found on the 8th floor of their under construction building at
8pm, with a rope still wrapped around her neck.
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