Dhaka, April 11 -- Police have arrested a man accused of raping and murdering a woman in Chattogram's Chandnaish Upazila.

The suspect, 28-year-old Nazim Uddin, was apprehended on Friday from Rashidnagar Dantamara Para in Cox's Bazar's Ramu Upazila.

Nazim is the maternal cousin of the victim's mother and is originally from Satkania Upazila's Khagaria.

Chattogram's Additional Superintendent of Police Md Rashed said that Nazim had fled following the incident.

"Acting on a tip-off, we arrested him this morning from Dantamara Para in Ramu. Further details will be shared in a media briefing."

The 18-year-old victim was visiting her grandfather's house in Chandnaish's South Gachhbaria Nayapara on Wednesday when she was raped and then killed...