A 40-year-old mentally challenged man kept chained by his family members was charred to death in a fire that broke out in his house in Chattogram in the small hours of Thursday. T he deceased was identified as Mohammad Mujib, who owned the house in the Bagan Bazar area of Fatikchhari upazila. READ: Small fire at BSCIC complex in Mirpur brought under control Shahadat Hossain Saju, chairman of Bagan Bazar union said, the fire broke out around 12am when the family was fast asleep and soon engulfed the entire building. "As Mujib was chained, he could not come out of the house and died in the fire." READ: Ctg fire: Two sisters die of injuries On information, a fire tender rushed to the spot, doused the flames and recovered the charred body of Mujib, father of two children, from the house. "The body has been sent for an autopsy," said an official.

A mentally challenged minor girl has been raped by a young man at Mohishalbari in Godagari upazila on Wednesday.   Khairul Islam, officer-in-charge of Godagari Police Station, said Alamgir Hossain, a youth of the area took the girl to the rooftop of an abandoned house in the afternoon and violated the girl.   Later, the family members of the victim took the girl to a local health complex.   Police arrested two people in this connection after getting complaint from victim’s family in the night.