Missing from Mirpur: Rab rescues 3 more students

Rapid Action Battalion rescued three more girls who went missing from Dhaka’s Pallabi area recently.

“The girls went to Cox’s Bazar. As a Rab team went there looking for them, they returned to Dhaka’s Abdullahpur area this morning. Rab members rescued the girls from Abdullahpur,” said Mozammel Haque, commanding officer of Rab-4.

The Rab CO said the three girls told them that a woman named Nafsa helped them in going to Cox’s Bazar. They were taken to Kamalapur first, in a car, on September 30.

Rab is trying to verify whether their version is true. “Their cell phones were destroyed and Facebook accounts were deactivated after they left home,” he said. A Rab member said they are suspecting the girls left their homes on their own.

Rab officials said they will share more details later on.

Earlier, police rescued five girls — out of eight, who went missing from the capital’s Mirpur area — from Dhaka and Netrokona. Two of the five rescued girls were raped, law enforcers said.

On September 30, the three teenage friends left their homes without saying anything to their families.

One of them took Tk 6 lakh in cash, another took 2.5 tola of gold ornaments and the other took Tk 75,000.

Elder sister of one of the missing teenagers filed a case with Pallabi Police Station, under the Women and Child Repression Prevention Act, against 10 people on Saturday.