Ctg girl raped, stabbed

A 15-year-old fishery worker was raped and stabbed by two alleged stalkers in the port city when she was returning home from workplace with one of her colleagues early yesterday. The culprits also snatched her gold earrings worth around Tk 13,000 after assaulting her, family sources say. The victim was a packaging worker of Apex Fisheries at Sagarika in Pahartali. Police arrested Wasim, 20, in this connection yesterday evening. Rozina Akhter, colleague of the victim, told The Daily Star they were returning from workplace around 5:30am after doing night shift. “After arriving in front of our colony by a rickshaw, I was paying the fare and my colleague was walking ahead,” she said. “As I was bargaining with the rickshaw-puller over the fare, four people wielding daggers attacked her and dragged her to the hillock behind Kaibalyadham shrine,” she added. Rozina said she had made an attempt to save her colleague, but two of the criminals drove her away brandishing machetes. A helpless Rozina rushed to her colleague's house and informed her family. They recovered the victim from the hillock in an unconscious state and took her to Chittagong Medical College Hospital's One-stop Crisis Centre (OCC) around 9:30am, said Jahirul Islam, sub-inspector of the CMCH police camp. Dr Nitai Prasad Dutt, coordinator of the OCC, said the victim was stabbed in the hand but is out of danger now. “We are also taking legal measures to help her,” he added. Rozina said they know two of the culprits by their faces but don't know their names. “The two teased us in last couple of months on our way to office and home. They also proposed to develop an affair with them and sought our cellphone numbers. They might have attacked us as we turned down their illicit proposal,” she added. Both the stalkers are involved in mugging for long in the area and were arrested a few days ago. But they came out on bail and returned to their old profession, she informed. A case was filed last evening against Wasim and his accomplice, said SI Dhiman Barua of Khulshi Police Station.