The police rescued an ethnic minority girl from a flat in Uttara in Dhaka on Wednesday early morning, seven days after she had gone missing.
The girl, 19, belonging to the Chakma ethnic community, went missing from her home in Rangamati鈥檚 Baghaichari area on June 19.
Uttara West police officer-in-charge BM Farman Ali confirmed that the girl was rescued at about 3:00am from a flat in Dhaka鈥檚 Uttara.
The girl鈥檚 uncle told 抖阴精品 that she went missing while she was returning to Rangamati town from Baghaichari on June 19.
鈥楬er mobile phone was found to be switched off since she went missing,鈥� he said.
He said that his niece informed a friend on Facebook that she was locked in a room in Dhaka but she could not identify the location.
The friend and some people applying techniques found the location and informed the national emergency helpline 999, but did not get any response, the uncle said.
Later, they informed the Baghaichari police following which a team of Uttara West police went to the spot and rescued the girl.
The police had to break the door as no response came from inside, a man seeking anonymity told 抖阴精品. He was among the survivor鈥檚 friends who identified her location in captivity and all of them were present at the spot during her rescue by the police.
鈥楾he girl was found locked in a room and there was a Chinese national in another room,鈥� he said, adding that, the police did not detain the Chinese national despite the girl鈥檚 friends made repeated requests for his arrest.
Uttara West police officer-in-charge BM Farman Ali said that the police did not arrest anyone as there was no case filed in this connection.
鈥楾he victim is currently in police custody. We will hand over the girl to her relatives when they come,鈥� he said, adding that her family was already on their way from Baghaichari.
The girl鈥檚 family members complained that a human trafficking gang was behind the incident.
They alleged that the gang lured the girl with promises of a better life in China.
Earlier at a human chain in Chattogram last month, local community members claimed that more than 500 teenage girls and women from ethnic communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts had been trafficked to China in recent years by trafficking gangs.
They alleged that Chinese nationals, alongside local racketeers, lure the girls with promises of a better life, only to be trapped in marriages and sold.
