Four schoolgirls missing from Thakurgaon rescued in Sylhet
The four students left home for private tuition on Tuesday.
Four schoolgirls who went missing from Thakurgaon's Baliadangi upazila have been rescued from Sylhet, police said today (2 July).
The girls were rescued from a bus counter in Sylhet at around 3pm yesterday while they were waiting to travel to Gowainghat, said Thakurgaon Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Snehashish Kumar Das.
The four students left home for private tuition on Tuesday and remained missing since then.
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ASP Snehashish said police launched a round-the-clock search operation immediately after receiving reports of their disappearance on Tuesday afternoon.
During the investigation, police found that the girls first travelled to Dinajpur, then to Dhaka, before eventually reaching Sylhet.
Police suspected the girls may have fallen into the hands of a human trafficking syndicate which lured them with false promises and was attempting to take them to India through a border area in Sylhet.
After the girls did not return home on Tuesday, their family filed a general diary (GD) with Baliadangi Police Station.
Police said further investigation is underway.
