Staff Reporter :
Yet another 15-year-old boy was killed allegedly by pumping air from a compressor into his rectum at a spinning mill in Narayanganj on Wednesday night.
The deceased was identified as Yeamin, a worker of a spinning mill and son of Shajahan in Araihazar upazila.
He became the third teenager victim in the same barbaric style of torture in the country after the sensational killings of Rakibul in Khulna and Sagar in Naryanganj by their co-workers and employers.
Police termed it a brutal murder, saying the offenders will be netted soon. Police also detained the victim’s collogue Rayhan, 18, in this connection.
Quoting the locals, Monjur Quader, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sonargaon Police Station, said, the workers of the spinning mill in Mahajonpur area of Sonargaon found Yeamin lying in the factory with his stomach swelling in the evening.
Later, he was rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) at 9:00pm Wednesday where he succumbed to his injuries at about 9:45 pm.
The fellow workers of Yeamin alleged that someone pumped air into his anus with a compressor at the factory.
“We are investigating the incident,” he said
On July 24, a 10-year-old boy named Sagar Barman was killed in the same manner at Zobaida Textiles in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district.
Another child Md Rakibul Islam was also killed when three adults pumped air through his rectum in a garage in Khulna city’s Tutpara area on August 13 in 2015.
