Bangladesh, Nov. 26 -- Three youths were held on Wednesday for "gang-raping" two schoolgirls in Panchagarh's Tetulia amid the widespread protests and announcement of the death penalty for sexual assault against women.

The victims' fathers filed two cases over the incident accusing five people.

"Three accused - Omar Faruk Imon, 26, Md Sohag, 22, and Anowar Hossain, 26 - have been arrested so far. We are trying to nab the other two, Officer-in-Charge of Tetulia Model Police Station Md Jahurul Islam said.

The girls went with Anowar to Tetulia on Tuesday to visit some places. At the end of the day, the three accused took the teenagers to the house of some Abbas Ali. This where the five accused gang-raped the teenagers.

The youths fled as ...