A seven-year-old girl was found beheaded in the capital’s Mirpur area on Tuesday, with police suspecting that she was murdered after sexual assault.
The victim was identified as Ramisa, daughter of Abdul Hannan Molla of Block-B, Section-11 of the area, known as Pallabi.
According to police, family members launched a search for Ramisa after she went missing in the morning.
At one stage, they searched the room of Sohel, 32, a tenant of the same building, and found the girl’s decapitated body.
The beheaded body was recovered from beneath the bed, while her severed head was later found inside a bucket kept in the bathroom of the flat.
Officer-in-Charge of Pallabi Police Station Hasan Bashir said preliminary findings suggest the child was raped before being killed.
The accused reportedly fled through a window after the incident, he said, adding that they detained his wife Swapna for questioning.