Online Desk: The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) have recovered the body of a 10-year-old girl, who had been missing from March 21, from a water body in Chattogram city. The deceased was Abida Sultana Ayni.

Police found the body inside a sack in the water body near chicken farm area under Pahartali Police Station of the city early Wednesday (March 29). A vegetable trader named Rubel was arrested over the incident, PBI added. Police suspect that Ayni might have been raped before murder. He was missing from March 21.

Special Superintendent of Chattogram PBI police Naima Sultana said, “We detained Rubel on Tuesday. He confessed to his involvement in the murder during interrogation. As per his information, Ayni’s body was recovered from the water body. It is suspect that the gilr was raped before murder.”