Vegetable traders -- Apan Mia and Nazrul Islam -- were waiting near the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on the night of December 28 last year for a vehicle to go to Karwan Bazar when a pick-up van stopped in front of them.

Members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained five Rohingya men with firearms in their possession from a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early yesterday.

A man was arrested in Gazipur on charges of the abduction and gang rape of a woman. Meanwhile, another man was arrested in Jamalpur for raping a garments worker.

He used to travel in a helicopter from Dhaka to remote towns and introduced himself as the CEO of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation.

Suspended Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar was granted bail yesterday by a tribunal in Bogura.

Police said the investigation into the rape and murder of a schoolgirl in Kalabagan has progressed well and they are trying to complete it soon.

Showing the handmade card she made for her elder sister on her 17th birthday on October 9 last year, eight-year-old Reana Asif (not her real name), the younger sister of an English-medium school student in Dhanmondi who died after rape, said, “I will not spare the scoundrel who killed my sister. I want justice.”

A Dhaka court yesterday allowed police to conduct tests to ascertain whether Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, the lone accused in the rape and murder case of a schoolgirl, had taken any narcotics or stimulant drugs.

Police have arrested three men over the gang-rape of a woman in Patuakhali’s Kuakata and another man over the rape of a fifth-grader in Patgram of Lalmonirhat.

A local court yesterday accepted the charge sheet in the case filed over the gang rape of a woman at Murari Chand College hostel over three months ago.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed yesterday said what happened in Kalabagan was out-and-out a crime.

A man was killed and 10 others were injured in a “gunfight” between two groups of Rohingyas at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The mother of the 17-year-old girl who was raped before her death said an invisible power must be trying to protect the man accused of raping her.

Two local dancers and a singer in Bogura landed in jail yesterday in a case filed over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl and attempted rape of another aged 13.

Six boys, all 13 or below, were going to a shop in Kamrangirchar Friday evening when one of them had his leg accidentally hit by 14-year-old Sifat coming from the opposite direction.

A readymade garment worker was stabbed to death allegedly by his brother-in-law at Nayabazar in Narayanganj Sadar upazila early yesterday.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was shot dead in Teknaf over what police said was his enmity with two local men.

Jahangirnagar University student Nazmul Hossain became sick on Saturday while protesting the deaths of two JU students in a road crash the day before.

Gaibandha-1 Awami League MP Manzurul Islam Liton dies after he is shot by unknown assailants at his village home in Sundarganj of the district.

A suspected robber is reportedly killed in a “gunfight” with police at Sonapur in Laxmipur Sadar upazila.