Bangladesh trains teenage girls to fight cyber crime

Bangladesh police say online harassment has grown alarmingly with the rise of smart phone use, with teenage girls the main target.-AFP

Dhaka (AFP) - Bangladesh on Tuesday began training thousands of teenage girls to fight cyber crime, citing an "alarming" rise in social media-related abuses mostly targeting adolescents.

Police said online harassment had grown alarmingly with the rise in smart phone use in Bangladesh, and teenage girls were the main targets.