DHAKA: Bangladesh police have charged 13 men with murder over the brutal lynching of a 13-year-old boy that provoked national outrage after video footage of the attack went viral, a detective said.
Police submitted a charge sheet to a court in the northern city of Sylhet on Sunday over the killing last month of Samiul Alam Rajon, who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of stealing a bicycle.
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