Police rescued three teenage girls from two houses in Chattogram city yesterday, four days after they went missing from Lama upazila in Bandarban.
Bandarban Superintendent of Police Md Ohabul Islam Khandaker said police rescued the girls from two houses in the Khulshi Police Station area at night.
Preliminary findings suggest that the girls had been staying at two houses to work as domestic help.
Md Ohabul Islam Khandaker Bandarban Superintendent of Police
He said they were handed over to their families after the necessary legal formalities were completed.
Preliminary findings suggest that the girls had been staying at the houses to work as domestic help, the SP added.
Two of the girls are seventh-graders, while the third is a ninth-grader at the same institution.
According to police, the ninth-grader left home on the morning of October 11, saying she was going to collect her registration card for the SSC examination. The other two girls left home later that day.
Their families searched various places but failed to find them and filed general diaries with Lama Police Station on October 13. Police subsequently launched an investigation.