A youth escaped death in mob beating as he managed to flee after local people caught him on suspicion that he was a child kidnapper in Hathajari area of Chattogram.

Five more people have been arrested in a case filed over beating a woman to death in Badda. They were arrested from different places in Badda yesterday night.

A mob handed over a man and his ex-wife to Godagari Police Station in Rajshahi today, suspecting them to be child kidnappers.

Md Siraj, 28, died because he loved his daughter. When a mob descended upon him, suspecting him to be a kidnapper, the deaf man could not even express his innocence for he could not speak.

A landlady is arrested for allegedly framing a tenant as a child kidnapper following an altercation over house rent payment in Dhaka's Jatrabari area.

Mobs beat to death five people, including two women, and injured 10 others on suspicion of being child kidnappers.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a two-and-a-half month old infant, who was abducted on March 11, from a septic tank in Bagerhat's Morrelganj upazila.