Seventeen girls arrested on various charges have escaped a juvenile detention centre in Gazipur after breaking a window open. Police have managed to detain 12 of the escapees.
The escapees fled the ‘Safe Residential Centre’ in Gazipur’s Mogorkhal area on Friday night, reports bdnews24.com
The centre houses girls under the age of 18 who have been arrested on criminal charges, said centre supervisor Zobaida Khatun. A total of 34 minor girls had been assigned to the centre.
“Seventeen of them escaped on Friday night. Twelve of them were later apprehended from Gazipur and Tangail’s Mirzapur that night.
“Some of those in room 205, on the second floor of the detention centre, managed to break the window bars.”
“They then tied their shawls and bedsheets together to form a rope and slipped out the window. The escape was detected during an inspection around midnight.”
Joydebpur police caught one of them on a road near the centre and three others in the Basan Road area.
The eight others recovered were found in Tangail.
“They fled the safe home and went to the Dhaka Shahjalal International Airport rail station and boarded a train headed north,” said Tangail Mirzapur Police OC AKM Mizanul Haque.
“Locals at Mirzapur Rail Station noticed that they were acting strangely and turned them over to police, believing they were Rohingyas.”
The juvenile detention centre was contacted after police learned of their escape, he said.
The centre has been warned to ensure that no such escape occurs in the future.
Law enforcers are working to detain the five other fugitives.