Teenage girls thwart child wedding

The marriage of a 13-year-old girl was prevented after her schoolmates marched in protest and lodged a police complaint in Satkhira town in southwestern Bangladesh.

Around 50 girls, students of Class 8 of the Abdul Karim Girls’ School, surprised the townspeople by taking to the streets and filing a complaint with the police.

Habiba Sultana, 13, dared not oppose her marriage to a neighbour 10 years her senior, who her father Siddique Sana, hard-pressed for money, had chosen.