An explosive situation has erupted in the tribal inhabited Khagracherri, Rangamati and Bandarban districts of Bangladesh in the wake of mass protests by tribals against the gang-rape of a minor girl, a student of class VIII, belonging to the Marma (Mog) tribal community. The girl survived in a critical condition but the gang-rape has fuelled massive protests all over the three districts of the Chittagong hill-tracts. The BSF jawans on the Indian side of the border in Sabroom has tightened vigil all along the border to prevent any infiltration from the bordering Khagracherri district.

Sources from across the border said that on September 23 a Marma (Mog) tribal girl had been raped a gang of Muslim miscreants on her way back from school at Singinala area under Sadar police station of Khagra

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