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Speech-impaired housewife gang-raped in Bhola
A speech-impaired housewife was allegedly gang raped by some young men on her way to home from a programme of devotional song (kirtan) in Tajumuddin upazila of Bhola district.
The woman aged about 25 is now undergoing treatment at Bhola Sadar Hospital.
Family members of the rape survivor said the woman, a mother of one child, went to Anil Sadhu Temple of Golokpur village to attend a programme of devotional song (kirtan) on Sunday.
Around 9 pm, she boarded on a battery-run auto-rickshaw to go to her house.
When the auto-rickshaw reached at Dhopabari the driver of the auto-rickshaw along with two others took the woman to a garden and violated her in turns.
They also beat her up.
Local people rescued the woman and took her to Tajumuddin Upazila Health Complex on Monday morning from where she was referred to Sadar Hospital.
Abdus Salam, officer-in-charge of Tajumuddin Police Station, said police are trying to arrest the rapist and case will be filed after the recovery of the woman, reports UNB.