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One arrested in Bangladesh over gruesome killing of 10year-old
DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Monday arrested a spinning mill worker for allegedly torturing a nine-year-old boy to death with an air compressor, the second such incident
DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Monday arrested a spinning mill worker for allegedly torturing a nine-year-old boy to death with an air compressor, the second such incident in less than a year, officers said. Sagar Barman died of internal injuries in hospital late on Sunday after his family alleges eight mill workers were involved in forcing the compressor into the boy’s rectum and turning on the machine. The boy also worked at the mill in Rupganj town, just south of Dhaka, one of millions of child workers in impoverished Bangladesh, many of them employed in hazardous industries. Police said senior employees had been “angry” at the boy and his father who also worked there for entering a restricted area of the mill. Hours after the arrest, police also raided the mill, one of the country’s largest, and rescued 27 child workers, many of them aged under 14.
