Dhaka, Dec. 4 -- Police have recovered the bloodied body of an eight-year-old child from Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar Upazila.

The girl's family alleges that she was raped and murdered. A case has been filed over the incident.

Nasirnagar Police Station OC Maksud Ahammad said on Thursday that the girl's father filed a case against unidentified suspects.

The body was recovered on Wednesday morning from Shankardaha village in Haripur Union, he said.

The child was a third grader at a local government primary school. Police sent the body to the morgue in Brahmanbaria General Hospital for post-mortem.

According to locals and the victim's family, the child was studying at home on Tuesday evening with her sister. Then, she was called and asked ...