A group of seven to eight people allegedly gang-raped a woman after abducting her at village Kurchai of Gafargaon upazila in Mymensingh district on early Wednesday.
Quoting local people, officer-in-charge of Pagla Police Station Aminul Islam said the women along with her husband and a three-year-old child used to live at her mother’s house at the village.
Around 1:00am, a group of masked people, numbering 7-8, swooped on the house and beat her husband up.
Later, they picked the woman up after tying her husband at the house and took her to an abandoned house around 200 metres away, where they violated her in turns.
Later, the family members rescued the woman and her mother filed a case with Pagla Police Station.
The OC said they sent the woman to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital for medical test.
He said that they were investigating the matter and legal action was under process.
Local people said that the woman and her husband got divorced one and half months ago over family dispute. However, the couple continued to live together.
