Trafficking gang lured girls using TikTok

The gang's alleged ringleader, nicknamed "TikTok Ridoy", would "lure young girls from TikTok and other social media groups, promising to make them TikTok models. Photo: Unsplash/Kajeta Sumila

At least 11 people have been arrested for being suspected members of a Bangladesh trafficking gang that lured girls and women into India's sex trade using the social media platform TikTok, Dhaka police said recently.

The gang's alleged ringleader Rafizul Islam Ridoy - nicknamed "TikTok Ridoy" - would "lure young girls from TikTok and other social media groups, promising to make them TikTok models", Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) paramilitary unit said.