Housewife gang-raped

A housewife was gang-raped at Gopalpur in Sadar upazila of the district on Wednesday night. Mehedi Hasan, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the victim was at Gaibandha bus stand on her way to Dhaka in search of job when one Nazrul Islam approached her and took her to his house at Ghorabanda in Palashbari upazila, promising to give her a job. From there, she was taken to a place close to a school at Gopalpur village, where Nazrul and his accomplices raped her by turn.  They left the place, leaving the victim there alone. Local people rescued the woman with severe injuries yesterday morning, rushed her to a hospital and informed the police. Police later arrested Nazrul Islam and Mahidul Islam.