What Is

Home » Articles tagged ‘bangladesh

Bangladesh arrests leader behind ‘beggar amputees’

January 15, 2011 | Author: | Posted in Anthropology Sociology, Crime, International, News and Society

DHAKA – BANGLADESHI security forces said on Saturday they had arrested the alleged leader of a gang responsible for amputating the limbs of children and forcing them into begging. Omar Faruq, 30, was arrested on Friday in a Dhaka suburb, said Colonel Zia Ahsan of the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). ‘He has admitted that …